HE GOT EVEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7482, 16 August 1902, Page 3

HE GOT EVEN.

When a than little man gob into a London omnibus recently he found- it contained/ only three other passengers — all ladies. A few minutes later the vehicle stopped to pick up a couple more, and some hundred yards farther on it again ca^w to a halt while a class of schoolgirls, on tbeir way to visit a museum, in charge of a mistress,, took their places." The 'bus was now full inside, But the conductor, nevertheless, allowed another lady to board it. She was an enormously stout person, and after looking round in vain for a vacant seat she fixed her eyj_> on the little man, who, small as he was, was squeezed into the comer by the row of schoolgirls until be occupied about as much space as a boy of nine would have found insufficient. He returned the stout lady's fixed and meaning glance indecisively, until, with an indignant toss of her bonnet, she. observed to the passengers generally, "Rather strange, ain'fc it? There ain't a single blessed gentleman present." The little man, with some difficulty, emerged from between the end of the bus and the press of schoolgirls. "Madam," said he, with an elaborate bow to tbo stout lady and a gesture towards the six inches of seat he 'had occupied, " pray take my seat." The ripple of smiles that ran round the) other faces was a full and complete rea-* geance to the little man for th-e f at la-ajqf . insulting observation.