Hot, tired, and dusty, the excursion was returning from the seaside day trip, and Simpkins, a little bald iftan, with big ears, overcome with his day of happiness, dropped off to sleep. In the hat rack above another passenger had deposited a ferocious crab in a bucket, and when Simpkins . went to sleep the crab woke up, and, * finding things dull in the bucket, started exploring. Then, by carefid navigation Mr. Crab reached tha edge of the rack, but the next moment down it fell, alighting on Simpkins' shoulder. Not feeling quits safe, it grabbed the voluminous ear of Simpkins to steady itself, and the passengers held their breath and waited for developments. But Simp-* kins only shook his head slightly.
“Let go, Eliza," he murmured, “I tell you 1 have been at the office all the evening."
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8
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