The little Montmartre-Saint-Pierre bus, that climbs up the hill to the funicular in front of Sacre-Coeur, came up the hill bravely.

The cross-town bus situation.

The "double 'bus" is shared by two conductors, one presiding in the morning and the other in the afternoon.

She mistook the estimable Christina for a deformed motor 'bus, and when she smelt Victoria Park, she jumped out.

" The beautiful, expensive school bus was in fact another type than the shabby, rattly affair Dr. Guerin made spin over the rough country roads.

To one who had tamed the proud spirit of Sharon Whipple's hellion it was but lightsome child's play to guide this honest and amiable new bus.

About a dozen hotel omnibuses met the train, from which only three passengers alighted; the other two were a young married couple at whom I would not have looked twice, though we all boarded the same lucky 'bus, had not the young man stared very hard at me.

Mysterious 'bus! always about to startalways full of patient passengers, and that yet was never seen by mortal man to set off.

Gee, I say!" Off goes the om-ni-bus!

I travelled by an overnight bus from Goa to Bangalore, rested briefly during the day at Hartman's place and caught the night bus again at Bangalore bus station arriving at Pondicherry at 4 a.m. There a cycle rickshaw fellow managed to cheat me of Rs.40 by promising to take me to Auroville but instead depositing me at Aurobindo Ashram which was more or less next door to the bus stop.

He used to fly at country fairs in an old ramshackle bus of the Wright modela thing of sticks and canvas and wires precariously hung together.

"SEEMS TO BE A RARE OLD BUS

What son of Dis first dragged thee from thy lair To be a twofold benison to us Poor mortals shivering in the upper air When Phoebus nose-dives in his solar bus Beneath the waves and goes to shine elsewhere?

He waved towards the stagnant 'bus.

This was not because he was late, but because she was early; and this again was not because she was indecently eager, but because she had hit on an unexpectedly non-stop 'bus.

Four minutes later there is a stamping of fat men in heavy overcoats round the brightly varnished 'bus.

In calm hours of reflection, rather, when the mellow sunlight streams into the room and, instead of the dull gray buildings opposite, you catch a mental glimpse of green tree-tops waving in the wind, and hear, above the rumbling of the busy 'buses, the buzzes ... the bumbling ... what I mean to say is you ought to sit down calmly and read the book from cover to cover, as I am doing now.

Again the verse came "If she's not here to take your partgo choose another with all your heart!" I heard wheels then, nearer than the singing,the clumsy rumble of our big yellow 'bus.

Another time I was on the last step of a bus which I thought would be quite okay for I had seen many people travelling while hanging at the doors of crowded buses.

A good day's work like this bucks him up wonderfully, he says, except when he comes down an awful whop in the darned old motor-bus, which is all right while she keeps going but no bloomin' use at all when she spreads her skirts in a ploughed field and smashes her new set of stays.