THEY GOT UP.
It was on a crowded tram car at 6 o’clock. Among those who had seats were eight men. Among those standing up were two shop girls. After waiting for a reasonable timefor some one to offer them seats one of the girls said : ‘ Mary, it’s too bad, isn’t it ?’ ‘ What, Sarah ?’ asked the other. ‘ That they are all bow-legged.’ ‘Who?’ ‘ These eight gentlemen. I have patronised this line for five years, and I never saw a bow-legged man give himself away by standing up in a car. It wouldn’t be reasonable toexpect it.’ ‘ Of course not.’ In just five seconds eight men were on their feet, bowing and smiling and asking Sarah and Mary if they wouldn’t bo so everlastingly kind and obliging as to take seats—take half the car, in fact, and they took it.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 20
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139THEY GOT UP. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 20
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