THEN THINGS HAPPENED.

New Zealand Tablet, 31 January 1918, Page 46

THEN THINGS HAPPENED.

! Though she was old she wasn't by any means incapable of supporting herself; and at the fresh, youthful 'age of seventy-nine she went into the business of providing teas for perspiring ! cyclists, and storing the cycles of those travellers who decided that they had better return .by train. }'' : Her first customers were four young men who left their cycles in her charge while they explored the neighborhood. For each cycle she gave them a ticket with a number upon it. ■.■* Late at night the tourists returned. , " The old woman led them to their cycles with a smile of self-satisfaction on her face. . "You'll know which is which," she told them, "because I've fastened" duplicate tickets on them." They gratefully thanked her; and when they found their cycles they discovered that the tickets were neatly pinned into each back tyre ! -