Jekn's Joke.
Three times the cab-whistle shriiled through tho dark vapours of the night, falling unpleasantly on the ears' of the hansom and fourwlieeler dmers on the rank. "Well, there ain't no taxi 'ere, nohow !" growled one jehu. "Let 'em blowtheir old whistle till they're beetrooty in the phiz!" Again the three whistlee pierced the darkness. But there weren't any taxis, so no taxis answered. "Shrr, shrr, shrr!" "Yah !" growled the man who had already spoken, to a passing wayfarer. "As you pass that cove wot's playin* tunes upon "'is whistle over there, jes' tell 'im from me, perlite-like. that if 'c gives four blows 'c can 'aye my blessed airyplane !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 87
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111Jekn's Joke. Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 87
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