Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1907 — Fallowed His Orders. [ARTICLE]

Fallowed His Orders.

President Hadley, of Yale, coming back to New Haven late one night, got onto one r of the cabs at the station, and, taking it for granted that the cabby knew who he was, said: “Drive fast, cabby.” “All right, sir,” replied cabby. The horse started off with a plunge and kept up his rapid rate for half an hour, going up one street and down another. Finally Dr. Hadley, seeing that he was being taken in the wrong direction, stuck his head out of the window and asked: “Are you not going in the wrong direction, cabby?” “Hanged if I know, mister,” was the astonishing reply; “where do you want to go?”