Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STRUT STREET cabbie Cab bies s ghost terms him a gentleman ge eflem an and a scholar by BILLY ROSE the other midnight after 15 hours of making like joe alvel tive il felt I 1 could use a little fresh air and so J I 1 steppe dinto a cabs cab and asked theli the ackle to drive me around central park hows business ismall talked Pr citty fair said the cabbie but people soon as us hackles es start making makin g an extra buck they act like we was profiteering or something they forget all those years when we had to ride the ghost in order to keep our jobs ride the what r 07 tho be ghost said the hackle what we used to cau call it when we throw the flag down and let the C lock clock run without a customer inside during tho the tough A I 1 times thero were fleet owners who would fire a guy gily it if ho he bring in a certain amount ot of business so we used to run it we up on the meter and pay it out of our own pockets an and d billy rose kose we had cowatch to watch ourselves when riding the ghost or an inspector might nab us the way I 1 used to do it was to cruise around central park until I 1 clocked enough to satisfy the bassand bos sand do you know something the biggest up tip I 1 over ever got was on one ona of nights when tho the ride was on me Un contuse confuse me I 1 said e 0 4 WELL IT WAST like tills this old cald the tha hackle about a month after tho the stock market trash crash in 29 im cruising around wall street one afternoon figuring that 11 1 a ato broker er ahr threw himself out the thai window I 1 might got get athance to rush him to the tha hospital but wall streets eti like ilka graveyard that day and so finally I 1 get disgusted and go into a speak easy for a couple of shots 4 when I 1 climb back ilmy in my cab a few to w hours later im feeling no pain and so I 1 decide I 1 might as well take the ghost for his usual joyride and that night central park Is really something to see senyou you know full of snow and icicles like a picture in a kids fairy airy book after making the circuit a 4 coupas 9 f times ym im about reddy ready to call it a night whon jhen suddenly sad denly I 1 got get rf 1 leeng feeling im being watched and so I 1 turn lurn around and the bark back is a 10 old goeber Ive gring one of 01 hs high coll irs and what they shey call a homberger homberg fr hat haj naturally this gibej mt me quitt quite a 4 joli 0 o but 4 0 guy is ii potted polled hes liable to ge get some pretty Prelly funny ideas and so 0 I 1 figure eligur out that thal ibi this s ische is flu I 1 been riding arounds night alter after night brave brava like I 1 crank on open the window between us and start stad to alk to ta him how you pe As ride I 1 says 11 im enjoying it line fine says the ahe ghost where can I 1 take you I 1 ask hirn him next to st patricks ca cathedral thedral the drai and close the tha wind getting co old 1 d STRIKES me as kind ot of a peculiar remark for a ghost but I 1 do like im told and when we got get to st patricks Patric lei the ghost gets ou out and im surprised I 1 cant see through him like youre supposed to with ghosts ill never forget you tor for what you did he says and especially tha th way you did It pretending not to hear what I 1 told you and driving me through the park on oil ahli beautiful night so I 1 could s see e a there was something in the world besides my own miserable problems for tha the first time I 1 begin to suspicion 1111 that maybe this ghost aint no ghost after all so 1 I says to him chend you get ilmy in my cab 01 0 1 you know darned aurnel well I 1 was waiting in th the eback back when you came out of th the ebar bar he says that explains i if I 1 says fays ai 1 I s see you because it was dark and I 1 was fras kind of lordest lo adest and I 1 hear you be because catsie the be window holive between ari us As was closed avoures Vo ures a genf lemars and a scholar says the tha little old jd geezer saying which hi fishes a d dollar hill and hands bands it to me ile he starts stalls to go away but I 1 stop him just tor for the record I 1 says wh erod you ask me to take you first As 11 you knois know ho he says ah the e middle of tho the broo brooklyn klyn bridge |