Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1910 — Refined Railery. [ARTICLE]

Refined Railery.

"Poor Lai Brough,” said an actor at the Lambs’, “had a great liking for London ’bus drivers and conductors. He was always tejling quaint yarns about them. He told me once that, as he sat on a ’bus in High Holborn going towards Tottenham Court Road, an Elephant and Castle ’bus went by the other way, and Brough’s conductor took off his badge and dangled it by its cord in the Elephant and Castle driver’s face. "The driver, at sight of the dangling badge, turned purple with rage. He swore and shook his fist and went on terribly, while the conductor on Brough’s ’bus jiggled the badge by its string and laughed as if he would burst. Brough had watched the odd Incident with a puzzled smile. “ ‘What was the idea of that, performance?’ he asked, as theconductor pinned on his badge again. " ‘Why,’ said the conductor, pointing his thumb derisively at the driver who still, from a distance, shook his fist and swore—‘why, ye see, ’is father was ’ung.’"