The following story is told of a distinguished Edinburgh professor : —Desiring to go to church one wet Sunday, he hired a cab. On reaching the church door he tendered a shilling, the legal fare, to cabby, and was somewhat surprised to hear the cabman say, " Twa shillin’, sir.” The professor, fixing his eye upon the extortioner, demanded why he charged two shillings, upon which the cabman drily answered, “ We wish to discourage travellin’on the Sawbath as much as possible, sir.”
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2714, 20 December 1882, Page 3
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80Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2714, 20 December 1882, Page 3
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