He Remained.
Tun other day the driver of a Woodward avenue car saw a boy slip softly up on the rear platform, and he presently called to him to vacat?. The boy replied by making up faces. " I tell you to pit 1"The boy elevated hia nose. The driver seized bis whip, but the boy winked at him. Whip in hand the driver droppsd off the oar to make good his threat, but »s he grabbed for the rear railing he missed it and sprawled in the street, while the hoise jogged along it such a gait aa made it necessary to run two blocks to overtake the car. The boy meanwhile indulged in chuckles, grins, oaokles, guffaws and gyrations, but as the driver got within ten feet of the car he walked in, deposited his fare in the box, and came out to coolly observe: " I'm a passenger now, and you larrup me if you want the company Bued for $10,000 damages 1 " " Thajdriver didn' Detroit Free Prets.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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169He Remained. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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