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Evening Star, Issue 3736, 12 February 1875, Page 3

There has been a reward offered by a society in America for the champion, mean man. Did that society ever hear of the Brisbane gentleman who, when the boy returned him his pocketbook, con aming L 23, which he had lost,went out and bought a pennyworth of bananas, and gave the boy the skin to chew ? ' • “ Little Way.”—lllustrative of the little ways” of some of the London cabmen, it related that a well-known essayist, on arriving at Victoria Station, asked to be driven to St. James’s street. Cabby mistook him for a foreigner, and drove him this wav and that—round by Sloane street, up by Park Lane, and again round by Holbdrn, Chancery Lane the Strand, and Pall Mall. “ What a funny dog you aie , said the passenger to cabby, on gettint;- put, as he handed him a shilling. The credit is awarded to cabby of having seen the joke, and grinned at bis own expense.

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