HERE'S ONE
20th April 1926, Page 3
20th April 1926
Page 3
Page 3, 20th April 1926
— HERE'S ONE
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The much advertised coach trip—" To hear the cuckoo in six counties "—had-been an unqualified success. The sun had shone incessantly and the passengers—mostly sentimental old ladies—had listened' enraptured to the Middlesex cuckoo and his cousins in Buckingham, Oxford, Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey.
Returning at twilight along the Fulham PaIice Road, the somnolent party was roused by an unexpected sound, " Cuckoo I Cuckoo I, Cuckoo ! "
Suddenly the driver turned to the lady beside him— "'Be a sport, miss ; don't give us away," he whispered hoarsely. "Just shift your right foot a bit ; it's on the cuckoo pedal."