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Show Her Mistake The pompous Individual had Just alighted from a bus at the corner of Threndneedle street, where the famous old lady of that name stands. Wrhen s stout old country woman offered him threepence to carry a large basket of fruit for her he was extremely annoyed, an-noyed, and showed It. He shook his umbrella angrily and stamped his foot on the ground. ."Woman!" he bellowed, "do I look like a man who carries baskets? And for threepence, too? Threepence, woman, wom-an, threepence? I have never been so Insulted In my life. Do you know that I nm descended from the (bike of Dnllyby?" "Oh. I beg pardon, sir!" stammered the old woman, thoroughly put out. "I thought you had descended from the Bayswnter bus!'' |