NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
There were several people in the sliop when the stranger entered, and so he addressed them at large: Any of yciu drive up hero in a trap ?" "'ies," said Farmer Wurzle; "I did. | Why i" "An old grey horse in the trap?" " Ves, but—" "And an elderly lady on the seat!" '"Thai's right, hut —" "I suppose she can manage that old horse I'' "Rather," said the farmer. "I should just think she could! Why, she's drove him since he was a two-year-old." 'Oil!" said the stranger; "then it's all right. I merely asked because the grey has started up the street like a mad b'.ill, and the old lady's hanging on to (he back of the trap, scieaiimijr 'Murder!' Still, if she tan manage I'im, of course, there's no use ■jetting excited over it. How's the price of tutors down your way V
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 November 1907, Page 6
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147NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 9 November 1907, Page 6
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