[At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Back of the North Wind CHAPTER XXIV 8/17
But you are a rum 'un for a cabby--ain't you now ?" said the policeman.
"I don't know as I ought to let you go." "I ain't done nothing," said Diamond.
"It's not my fault I'm no bigger. I'm big enough for my age." "That's where it is," said the man.
"You ain't fit." "How do you know that ?" asked Diamond, with his usual smile, and turning his head like a little bird. "Why, how are you to get out of this ruck now, when it begins to move ?" "Just you get up on the box," said Diamond, "and I'll show you.
There, that van's a-moving now.
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