THE CABBY’S FEARS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIX, Issue 1075, 13 October 1910, Page 23

THE CABBY’S FEARS.

An old lady recently bargained with a cabman standing outside the rail-

way station to take her into town. The sum agreed upon, the dame returned into the station, and soon reappeared 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 trip she made, bringing back a daint-ily-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 the reply; “whatever made you ask that question, cabby?” “Oh, it’s all right, ma’am,” said John. “I thought I’d ask, ’cos I ain’t certain as ’ow my horse can swim, and I fancied by the look of your luggage that you were a-takin’ my keb for a Noah’s Ark!”