Show THE PARIS CABBY I 1 for ways way that are dark ue he has ha very row equals should an accident befall the vehicle of a paris cabman during your occupancy I 1 he will abandon himself to a paroxysm of grief compute the loss and tell in moving accents of his wife and children I 1 whose bread will be taken from their mouths by the mishap but if 11 I 1 your fingers thereupon make instinctively for your pocket restrain them he Is insured he pays a small monthly premium to a cab insurance company and in the case of a smashup smash up only the company suffers A playful intimation that you are aware of this circumstance will do wonders to console him there was in days gone by a cabman an who made such a good thing out of accidents that he ended by adopting them as a specialty he confined his labor labon to those quarters of ehe town chiefly aff affected acted by the english and his system was to pick up a benevolent english tourist by preference a lady and break a shaft he knew a method of turn turning inq a corner which no shaft could resist then he would beat his beast and shake his fist at heaven call upon the universe to witness that he was a pooi man who would be ba ruined by the sum it must cost to get his cab repaired bring in his wife and children though t tho ho unprincipled creature was a bachelor elor and what could a benevolent look t in ing g english tourist do but help hiro him cut |