Much Honoured, But

North Otago Times, 15 February 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

Much Honoured, But

Mistress (an elderly fpinstcr) : " Well, Drown, I am sorry you are going to leave mo; but you are very fortunate In having tibia money left to you, and I congratulate you." Tien, smiling kindly, " I suppose you will now be looking out for a wife V Brown ; " Well, really, ma'am, I don't know how to tank you for your proposal. Ito sure I am much' honoured; but, unfortunately, I am engaged to a young lady already." In Instalments. A good actor, tut an Mtrcmely stout one, was playing a part In a melodrama with a Junior, who, at a critical moment, was to dash In and carry him off the stage. Tho Junior tried with all his might to lift the stout player, but although the latter holped bis little comrade by standing on hla tip-too, In the usual manner, the Junior wßj unable to move the corpulent actor an Inch. At this Juncture a boy In the gallery called out: '"Mo what you can and come hack lot • t the rert." What Cabby Earns, ' IA.B a rule the London cabby pays nothing • down for tho hire of his vehicle at starting, but In tho middle of tho day he has to change his horso and remit about 7s. Sometimes the second horse has been taken but an hour brfore out from the shafts of another cab. • On roturnlng to the yard at night he has to pay a fee of 2s. more, plus a mysterious Slump up of 10s., called " yard money," a tip of 3d. to the horatfteeper, and another of Sd. to the washer, Tots total of pretty near £1 may be r«- . ducod. In winter to about 163., there being then a smaller demand for conveyances both on lbs part of the public and the drivers, many of the latter, called " butterfly cabblee," spending the cold season at other emanations, To make as Itfcomo, therefore, of about £IOO a ywr, which U about what the run 01 <b«8« man do, ft Is neoogsary to tako tonatblag over Ka, a day Is eumaer Uui