CABBY'S STORY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2651, 4 January 1905, Page 82

CABBY'S STORY.

.1 "Some ladies is fearful stingy.- I had" one t'other day"— her© the cabby' smiled affectedly,' drew an imaginary skirt, toyeel with an invisible lap-dog, and took two or three .steps .with a. minoing gait. "'ls ypur"'an6om disengaged V says she. " 'Yes'in,' I answers. v » * » " 'l ' trust your springs are, in liorder? she says again. " 'Excellent— Al.' I says. " 'Well, then, cabman, you may drive me to Regent Place; but a-awfnl careful, for pooah deah King Charlie hae been so— so bad with the inflooendza.' " "The influenza?" interjected his companion. "I didn't know dogs were afflicted with that fashionable complaint." , "Kec'lect thie wasn't no hordmary dog, sir. 'Twas on© of them spaniels that's prison-cropped on the bocly, but wears the 'air of their heads long like a hopera singer. Well, in she gets, an' I drove- toff- to the ' toon of the Dead March. By-an'-bye wo ■ gets to the destination, my lady steps hout : an.' hinto the 'ouse, an' I makes sure of a tip of 'arf a crown at the lowest. Ai'ter , a bit hout comes a flunkey, an' counts four thrupenny pieces, also some coppers, into my fist. " 'That's ye: legal fare, cabby,' says he, 'inoludin' a gratooity of tuppence, but my lady has generously hinetructed me to pi-esent you with a copy of the hintereslm* work hintitled " 'Ow to Live on Sixpence a Day." ' " ''You took it, of course?" observed the journalist. " 'Eggtscuee m e, sir,-- 1 says, 'handin' back the Tollum, with the. grace of a hemperor, 'but I counld't think of deprivin* you, sir, of hany information which might henable you tp live hup to your income.' "With that I giv the 'oss- a word an' driv' lioff, leavin' the flunkey standin' in a petrified hatitoDd."

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