PEOPLE WHO KNEW BETTER DAYS.
Thoro is a fltory going tho round of tlio payers about an cx*ouplaia of tho UoD^a-
Onvnlrv. who i^ un itun ito of tho Chelsea VVorkhousf, und who wm punished the other duy beoiiuso ho eithor would not or could not brouk his allotted portion of stone. By many people tho talo is looked on, to say tho leant of it, as highly improbable ; but I for ono onn rfiito believe it. This gontlomim is fltatod to hnvo muddled 1 away botwen two or throe thousand' pouiiil«» Mut I know, and often soe, an individual with wh'.m I vr«s acquainted some fifteen or twenty years ago a captain in an English lancer regiment with an income of JCIBOO a year, an<l who in now driving a Imttdsomo cub. He docs not 9i?pm at al? ashamed of his fn'lon position and bus always a cherry ini'.wer for any old friends who address him. Tho cab and horse ho dtivos aro his own, lie lives titftaiowßv is a sober, hard-working ; fellow, w married to a rc»pect»blo good looking girl, who was formerly a housemaid in' the lodd^ings where ho lived, his homo is clean nnJ comfortable I hnvo drunk tea, with him moro than once, nnd ho has (hreo as nieo«ta»king children a ftto to bo found in all London. In a wold, ho has, liko a wiso man, quito for* i gotten his- lancer existence and accepted that of a cabman, very thankful that his j former foMies havo fund him no lower, in the social scale. He has only two antipathies fn tho world — old Indies and * nntry pnrsons, Hesays that I oh these categories of tho hnmnn species always endeavour to ■ cheat him of his legal faro.
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Inangahua Times, Volume v, Issue 33, 22 May 1878, Page 2
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293PEOPLE WHO KNEW BETTER DAYS. Inangahua Times, Volume v, Issue 33, 22 May 1878, Page 2
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