A Street Car Incident.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 2 June 1906, Page 61

A Street Car Incident.

She was a middle-aged woman, with a sour, pessimistic face, and from the time she got on until she alighted she was continually plying the conductor with questions. He was a good-natured son of the Emerald Isle, and answered all her interrogatories with a smile, though her impetuosity and restlessness w re

trying on one’s nerves. “Be sure,, now. conductor, and let me off at Bond-street.*' ‘ You know, you never can trust these conductors.*’ she said to a neighbour. “If you want to ge‘ oil at a certain street, you’ve got to remind them of it constantly. Only a little while ago I asked a conductor to let me off at a certain street, and paid no more attention to the matter. Pr •- sontly 1 thought it about time that 1 got oil. and I asked the conductor about i/.. What do you think? He had let me ride almost a mile past niv destination, and

when 1 remonstrated with him. somewhat severely, he said he had enough to do to look after the fares without look ing for the streets where wanted to get off. Such impertinence to a lady! I reported him immediately."

“Bond-street.” cried the conductor, as the car was slowing down. “At what end shall T get off?” said the woman with the sour face.

“You can get off at either end. lady Both ends stop.”

And the woman got off at the front end amid a general titter among the passengers.