Thereupon the cabman continued-- "When I 'as a bit of business ter do yer must understand that I does it, and that no man can say as I doesn't.

A gent gets into my keb and sez he, 'Drive me until I tell yer to stop, and go as fast as yer can,' sez he.

'Take every back street yer know of, and come out somewhere Hoxton way.

I'm not partic'lar so long as I go fast, an' I don't git collared by the keb that's after us.

If yer help me to give 'im the slip there's a five-poun' note for yer trouble.' Well, sez I to myself, this is a proper bit of busness and there and then I sets off as fast as the old 'orse cud take us.