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Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 4

A negro taxi driver was charged with having run down a pedestrian. “When you are driving,” said the magistrate, “and you see you are about to hit some person, you should zigzag your car.” “I did zigzag, your Worship,” said the negro, “but dat man was zigzagging, too, and he zigged so n -,, ch faster than I could zag dat it just nacherly give me do swimmin’ in de head. »n’ dat’s how I cam© to hit ’im.” A bus was passir near Westminster Cathedral, London, and the considerable crowd gathered in the. neighborhood attraptcd the attention of an American passenger. “Say,” she remarked to the conductor, “ what may that concourse signify?” “ It’s a tragic incident, ma’am,” replied the conductor. “ Some poor bloke’s getting married.”