KNEW HOW IT WAS.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 273, 15 May 1886, Page 4

KNEW HOW IT WAS.

A very funny scene, of which the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby was the central figure, occurred a few days ago in a Fourth Avenue car. The doctor and some ladies had just taken their seats, when a man who was considerably under the influence of liquor boarded the car, and sat down (apposite to them. His conduct soon became rather boisterous, and two men who sat near by began to swear at him and threaten to put him off. This naturally did not improve matters, and Dr Crosby, seeing that the ladies were becoming frightened, signalled the two sober men to stop their tantalising, while he went over and sat down beside the drunken man. After the minister had spoken a few words in his ear he stopped his noise, and the doctor went back to his seat. For nearly a mile further the fellow travelled without the least disturbance, and then Dr Crosby saw that he wanted to get out. He signalled to the conductor, and the car stopped. The drunken man rose from his seat, but before going out turned towards his late tormentors with a most horrible frown, and then stepped over to Dr Crosby, while over his face spread a maudlin, idiotic grin. Patting the minister on the shoulder two or three times, he said, in a very audible tone, " You're a good feller ; I guess you know how tis'h yourself."