NOT EXPECTING A FLOOD.
__ — — *- ■ An old lady recently bargained with, a cabman standing outside Colchester railway station to take her into the town. The sum being agreed upon, tlio dame returned into the station, and soon reappeered with two parrots in cages, which she handed up to the cabman. Again she journeyed to" the platform, and brought out two cats. A third t)rip she made, bringing back a daintily-dressed fox terrier, and a fourth expedition was interrupted by cabby exclaiming : — • "Beggin' your pardon, ma'am, but you ain't expecting a flood, I 'ope?" "Dear me, no," was tihe reply ever made you ask that question, cabby?" "On, it's all right, ma'am," said Jehu. "I uh'cnght I'd ask, 'cos I ain't certain as 'ow my horse can swim, and I fa-ncied by the look of your luggage that you were atakiu' my keb for a Noah's Ark!"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7807, 11 September 1903, Page 1
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