Coolie Run Over by Cantonese General's Motor-Car A Kompo hawker had a remark: lable experience while" selling peanuts in Thibet Road on Sunday. 'A-huge and gorgeous limousine, containing the august person of cantonese general, came bowling long and knocked. the man down. Before pulling up, the machine. ran ight over him but without touching him again, excepting for the first bump. 'The coolie. promptly got up" and ran for his' life, "with a policeman close behind him. The policeman's intentions were entirely benevolent, but. the coo failed to realize this and led his p suer quite a dance before he was caught. The constable, who seems to have a very strict sense of the formalities, insisted on the coolie being conveyed to hospital. in. the ex-general's ear. On arrival at the hospital the coolie was certified perfectly ft, whereupon he was seized with a second ft of terror at having Fidden in the gentleman's motor eat under false' pretences. The owner of the car then offered the coolie $5 compensation which was vohemently refused. Under duress. ex-Jereised by the constable he was finally persuaded to accept, albeit with reluctance. "The policeman then read the coolie a Homily on taking care of himself on the roads, {he wut of ralitude fo his bene winding up with the advice that he actor and his luck generally,
buy a lasting present with the money and in the years to come make obeisance to the spirit of the former general.
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