A HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16797, 22 July 1920, Page 6

A HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE.

A lady motorist, gentle in sex and in heart, says the Morping Post, was driving home from the races when she had the misfortune to collide with a can filed with bookmakers.- The cabman shot from his perch, and the load was strewn with the bookies, and strong and strange was the storm of language that arose. To add to the horror of the situation, and further to lacerate the gentle driver’s heart, the cabman was discovered within a yard of tbo wheels of the car, sitting in the road with a ghastly face—and without his legs, “Heavens!” cried the gedtlc driver, “have I cut the poor man’s legs off i” ’ The cabbie replied cheerfully', “All right, missy, I was born without legs; that’s why I rolls off,my box so easily.” And in the end an accident which eeemed at the time of fearful import turned out to have hurt nobody.