Humour
UP TO HIS PART. A celebrated actor who had been driven to his theatre in a hansom paid only his legal fare. Cabby, looking gloomily at the money, said: “Are you the gentleman wot plays Shy lock, the Jew, at that ’ere theayterp” “Yes, I am,” was the reply. “Ah, I thought so,” retorted the cabby,“ and you does it first-rate ; it’s quite natural to you,”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 17, 22 July 1893, Page 10
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67Humour Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 17, 22 July 1893, Page 10
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