Cabby Knows His Fare.
In Dublin the legal fare for a car drive between any two points in the cily is 6d. butwhen these points are very far apart the "fare" is expected to bear this in mind. It was overlooked, however, by a big, fat, commercial traveller, who mounted a car at one extremity of the city to be driven across to the other, but who, on dismounting, offered the car-driver the customary 6d. The driver, instead of taking it, took the horsecloth briskly out of the well of the car, shook it out, carefully covered with it the horse's head, arid ' then, turning to the traveller, touched his hat cheerfully, and held out his hand for the 6d.
"What was all that for?" asked the travel-
To whom the driver replied, in a confidential tone, "I didn't want the dacent baste, your honor, to see what a big load he had brought all this way for one little 6d."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 65
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161Cabby Knows His Fare. Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 65
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