NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKED.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 43, 24 October 1891, Page 524

NOT SO EASY AS IT LOOKED.

‘ I NEVER tried but once to step off a moving tramcar,’ said a lady in conversation with a friend. ‘ Did you get a fall ?’ *No ; I had heard my husband say that you must jump off in the direction in which the car is going, and as it reached the place where I wanted to stop I just skipped out as if I had been accustomed to it.’ ‘ Was it as difficult as you supposed !’ •It was ten times harder. I ran a few steps, and it seemed to me that the whole planet was turning round. I sprawled all over to keep from falling, and when I struck the footing I nearly knocked two men down who were passing, in my attempt to preserve an equilibrium As I reeled away I heard one of them exclaim, “ It’s a shame to see a woman in such a condition in the public streets—she ought to be arrested.” I could not run after him to explain matters, but I have never had the slightest ambition to jump off a tramcar in motion since. Yet it does look so easy when John does it.’