The conductor's chance.
The humours of 'bus-conducting are godsends on a long and tiresome journey. The other day the writer observed a hardvisaged woman sitting in the corner with a "penny-saved-is-a-penny-gained" kind of expression in her eye. The conductor approached her and asked for her fare. "What next? I've paid you once," said the woman. i "No, you haven't." "Yes, I have." "Give me the fare, or I'll put you off." ! "Put me off — if you dare 1" The conductor pulled the bell, stopped the 'bus, and put her off, muttering thunder. "Katber an awkward thing to have to do," observed a passenger ; "but I suppose she deserved it?" The conductor smiled triumphantly. "Well, you sse," he said, "it isn't every day I have a ohance to get even with her. She's my wife !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2672, 31 May 1905, Page 78
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