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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1930.

CAB, SIR?

TRUE TALES BY A TAXICABMAN.

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Once a baby was nearly born in FLEW WITH BROKEN my cab, and once there was almost amarder. The passengers on this ocension' were five negroes belong- ing to a dance band. Their entire

ARM.

"The tragedy of it was that the previous day the Aircraft: Disposals Board had agreed that I should fly. a plane to Morocco for the Spanish Government.

luggage consisted of four bottles CAPT. BARNARD'S SECRET.this chance to get back to firing,

of stolen whisky..

An argument about the liquor caused the trouble. One of the band had filed a dupheate- set of bottles with milkless tea and was trying to get away with all the whisky. The others discovered th trick, and if I had not intervened

"Have you seen the Prime of Wales #round here ? asked the stranger standing beside me at the coffee stall, where I had gone for

between refreshment

fares. A glance, told me that he was a debis life. tective.

So the Prince had given them. the slip again. Perhaps that young man who tipped, so goner ously and whose face I did not netice was the most popular young man in the country. At any rate, I said "No to the detective, for I felt sure tha that was what the Prince would have had me,say.

Actors and actresses are among my most generous customers. I used to drive Joso Collins regular ly and some of her tips were un- usually large.

I was not so lucky with all my theatrical folk, for I once had the misfortune to annoy Seymour Hicks. He ordered me to drive him to the Coliseum, and I stopped at the main entrance instead of the stage door. There he was recognis ed by the crowd, and he told me who he thought about me.

When. I drove him again, he was greatly amused when I said, "Right door this time, sir."

That lid. Tip.

he would not have escaped with

Those Eels.

Many people regard a taxicab driver as fair game, and try to best brim if possible, but sometimes he gets his own back. ***

Once a nian who sold jelled ceis hired my cab to take two bowlfuls to r customer. The bowls were (covered with a white cloth, and he stood them on the mat. My next fare was a smart old gentle man, who told me to drive to a club. Taxicab fares bad just been reduced, and every cab had to carry a notice showing the now rates. The old gentleman evidently afraid of being cheated, for I could hear him striking mat. ches, and when I looked round he was on his knees staring at the clock

was

On arrival, he jumped out, and was so interested in paying me the exact legal fare that he never notic el his trousers. I had a good view of them as he walked up the steps, and they were plastered from the knees downwards with what looked paste. Later, like billstickers' when I examined my mat, I saw that the eel merchant had spilt his jelly..

WHEN HE CRASHED IN FLAMES.

Capt. "C. D. Barnard, the famous air pilot, who recently made record flights with the Duchess of Bedford to India and back in a week, to | Capetown and back in 20 days, and to Malta and back in 25 hours, might have been seen in 1919 uà- loading coal trucks at King's Cross Station. .

This is how that came about. "I went to France in 1914," he said, "as a "Tommy" in the Honourable Artillery Company, I was 19. At the end of 1915 I re- ceived a commission in the Royal Flying Corps. I learned to fin

hours. Even before the war. I was keen on £ying, but I had qever been up.

Just after the war I had a bad crash-came down in flames from 1,000ft. at Southport when taking joy-riders up. We never found out the reason for the plane catching

fire. I was unconscious, anyway,"

"Of the two passengers, one was. seriously hurt: the other died. I was terribly burned his hands are still covered with scars-“ and for five weeks I was totally blind, Christmas Passengers.

I was ill for nine months, during which time I was hardly able to Passing Leadenhall Marger-stage my hands at all. But I was 20 Christmas I was hailed by a man

anxious to get back to flying and a large One day I drove a rich-looking with "what looked like" old lady from Mayfair to a West turkey in a poulterer's hag, fasten-ake sure my nerve wasn't impair ed that I got my sister to wheel ed by a skewer at the top. He

me in a bath chair from Southport End shop. I helped her out most

took the cab to Clapham, and after Infirmary to the sands." carefully. The fare came to n billing, and she gave me a three. he had paid the fare I was sur. halfpenny up. Thinking that she i prised to find he had left the turkey bad made a mistake. I drew her inside. I examined it, and pulled attention to the halfpenny as poli-out the skewer-only to find that the "turkey" was a large dead eat- tely as I could.

Not knowing what to do with it. I put the skewer back and left the bag in the enb.

"Young man," she said in a stern voice, look after the halfpennies and the pounds will look after themselves." With that she sailed into the shop.

My next fare was a young man in a hurry. When he arrived at his destination he surprised me by a two shillings tip and walked

"I was lifted into an aeroplane

and I flew it. I couldn't walk then. More months in hospital followed.

"When I could get about I took charge of a garage in St. John's Wood, I did all sorts of jobs. besides being manager I took cars out, loaded furniture, unloaded coal

at King's Cross.

"One day I was bringing hop- pickers back from Kent, and, in

Politics, apparently, do not al ways mean full pockets. One well-away with a suspicious bulge un-starting up the lorry, broke my arm known Cabinet Minister in the der his coat. Looking inside the in two places.. I had it put into Inst Government used to ring up cab. I. found that pussy" had splints and drove the lorry back our rank and ask us to send round

gone. The young man had paid with one hand, changing gear as 0 cab fitted with the then new two shillings for stealing ber.

best I could. sixpenny clock.

At last we got so tired of this that "we misunderstood" the" mesa- age and sent the bathchair man instead.

The wife of another Minister once took my cab for herself, her little boy and his nurse, The fare came to 13. 4d. She gave me 15. 66. and insisted on twopence change.

My Dear Watson."

was

Another interesting fare Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The only time I drove him I managed. to puzzle the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

"Thank. you, Mr. Conan Doyle,”

I said when he tipped me. He looked surprised, and asked how I knew him. I replied that, al "though I had never set eyes on him before, to use bis own langu. age, I had established his iden tity by a process of deduction." This interested him, and he ask ed me how I id managed it. When I replied that his name was written all over his luggage I think he was disappointed.

Perhaps he had hoped to get a new idea for a story from my "deductions."

One of my saddest war-time fares was a wounded officer. There was a scramble for cabs in the Strand, and I gave him the preferénce be cause he had only one leg and was walking on crutches. There was a girl with him who looked like his sister. They told me to drive to a restaurant in Piccadilly, where the girl got out, leaving the officer in the cab.

I was determined not to lose

and I went down to Croydon to take over the plane. I didn't let them know, I had a broken arm, and I. got off with the plane without any body discovering it."

the

"It was a four days' fight, with landings at Paris, San Sebastian, Madrid, Seville. That was turning point. It led to many other aights."

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After balf an hour he remarked. that she seemed to be a devil of a time getting her coat" and ask ed me if I knew her. I told him. that I had taken her for his sister. and was surprised to hear he had met ben for the first time in the Strand.

This made me wonder, and I asked him if he had given her any money. When he replied that he had given her a "tenner" to change, I told him that he would never see her again...ta

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She had gone down the stairs, through the restaurant and out into Rogent-street. He would not believe me, but paid off the .cab and and got out to wait By him self.

Nearly two hours later I paes- ed again and he was still there.

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