BUS AMENITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1930, Page 8

BUS AMENITIES

Oonsternatian was caused in a bus in Wellington the other afternoon by the mother of a little girl overhearing a young lady say that her child was dirty. The young lady whispered this indiscreet remark to her young male companion,, but the alert ears of the mother picked it up immediately. “H’m,” she said, e3 r eing the couple, “dirty is she. Well, Miss, when you have kids of your own see if you can have them as clear. The cheek of you, .you impertinent highheeled made-up grease-paint hussy.” The bus went on and so did the tongue of the mother. She kept up a running fire of conversation, and like the brook, seemed like going on forever. People got out of the bus and at last the woman and her child and the other two were the only occupants, besides the driver. The bus pulled up at a stopping place with a jerk, and the woman, after poking her tongue out at the other of her sex, alighted to find her husband waiting for her.

“Good heavens,” said lie angrily, as lie lifted the child out. “Don’t you ever keep this kid clean. It’s a disgrace, that’s what it is, the way you take the kid alxnit.”

“There,” said the girl, who by this time had regained her composure, “didn’t I tell you. "Wasn’t 1 right?”