NICE FOR THE NERVOUS LADY.
Manager Calino, the simple-hearted and in-* genuous Frenohmah, happened to be riding in a train in the same compartment with a lady who was in constant fear of a smashup. ' - ' .- v At every sudden stop, every jar, every sound of the bell or whistle, she cried out,, "Oh! oh! Havel we run off the track? Is it a collision? Are we going to. be killed?" Calino paid no attention, but remained wrapt in solemn silence. Presently the lady raid to him: And you, sir, aren't. JW aftaid of railroad aooidents?" . «v« ■• "Not I, madam," answered Odino, reassuringly. "It hw been foretold that I am to die on the scaffold 1" _. The nervous woman went into hyttencs, and (had -to be removed from the train at) tfi* mexti etatdon.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6901, 15 September 1900, Page 3
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133NICE FOR THE NERVOUS LADY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6901, 15 September 1900, Page 3
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