ONE OF PEOFESSOR PALMER'S

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 224, 26 January 1883, Page 6

ONE OF PEOFESSOR PALMER'S ' TEIGKS.

A tbajdition is afloat of the late Pro> fessor Palmer, who was recently murdered by the Bedouins near Suez, that some time since he repeated on a wager Q-arricfc's old practical joke of frightening the driver of a four-wheeler he had hired to convey him home from the theatre by calling through one window for cabby to stop, and then leaping through the other before the poor fellow had time to open the dopr. , The amazement of the cabman had no bounds! He looked all around, even under the seat, and at last, per* ' plexed heyond measure, climbed to his box and rode on again. Soon after the Professor, having borrowed a hat and ulster, of the friend who held the wager, and who followed close behind, called the cab and got into it again. Presently he repeated the same manoeuvre of leaning out of the righthand window to tell the cabman to stop. Meanwhile he had again jumped out at the left-hand side and run to the pavement unperceived by the driver. ; Again the same consternation, and the same perplexity. After pro-, ceeding a little way, cabby was hailed by one of the Professor's friends, and he shook his head in evident affright, and, exclaiming, ' No, darn me if I take another fare ; I have driven the devil twice alraady to-night,' drove off at a perilous gallop, while the wager was pronounced fairly won by the Professor.