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Show Need for Alarm. Before climbing up to his seat the colored cabman set the alarm on a small clock that hung In one corner of the cab. "What is that for?" asked the passenger, pas-senger, but the driver had already mounted to his seat and was telling his horse to "Giddap," and apparently did not hear. The alarm was set for four o'clock. That was 20 minutes past the time the passenger had counted count-ed on arriving at the given address, but he was so desirous to find out what the cabman would do when the alarm went off that he called up instructions in-structions to take him many blocks out of his way so he would be in at the finish. At four o'clock the alarm .sounded. The cabman alighted, set the alarm for five o'clock, and hung the clock hack in the corner. Then the passenger's passen-ger's curiosity could be restrained no longer. "What's the meaning of thi.?" he said. "1 have ridden 20 minutes longer than I ought to and h.ive run up a dollar extra on my bill just to find out the secret of that alarm." "Yes. sir," said the cabman, "that's it." "What is it?" "The 20 minutes and the dollar extra. ex-tra. They all does it, just as you did, out of curiosity." New York Times. |