Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1881 — The London Cabby. [ARTICLE]

The London Cabby.

Scene, Fleet street; door oi Anderson’s Hotel; midnight; Hansom cab discovered pulling up and fare alighting. Fare—How much ? Driver (aside)-—He looks a green *n: I’ll charge him stiff. To the fare— Five shillings, sir. Fare—Only five shillings all the way from Charing Cross, and so late at night, too! Cabby, you must be making some mistake. Driver—No, sir; Hikes to be ieasonable when I meets a gen’l man; and I knowed you was one, sir, when yer’ ailed me. Fare—Well, get down, cabby, and have a little drop to warm you; you need something t »is sort of weather. Driver—Thank ’ee, sir. I just will. We does need sum mat to warm us I can tell yer, sir (Cabby alights.) Fare—Well, now, I wifi tell you what I will do with you. cabby.. You seem a decent fellow, and I am likely to be a good customer to you. 11l just race you to the next lamp-post whether I pay on quits and 111 give you ten yards start. Driver—Right, sir. You is wot I call a good ißoth take up their positions, and the fare cries ‘ go” and cabby starts off at the top of bis speed, and never once looks around till he reaches the next lamp-poet, and when he does he finds that his fare has also raced as fast as ever he could—in the opposite direction!) Drive (five minutes later)—Well, I am blowed! (and he was for be hadn’t even enough breath to oall “Police!’’) cuckoo.