I tried once or twice to persuade the children to let me take them back to the old lady: but every time I opened the trap-door to speak to them the youngest one, a boy, started screaming; and when I offered other drivers to transfer the job to them, most of them replied in the words of a song popular about that period: 'Oh, George, don't you think you're going just a bit too far ?' One man offered to take home to my wife any last message I might be thinking of, while another promised to organise a party to come and dig me out in the spring.

When I mounted the dickey I had imagined myself driving a peppery old colonel to some lonesome and cabless region, half a dozen miles from where he wanted to go, and there leaving him upon the kerbstone to swear.

About that there might have been good sport or there might not, according to circumstances and the colonel.

The idea of a trip to an outlying suburb in charge of a nursery full of helpless infants had never occurred to me.

No, London," concluded my friend the churchwarden with a sigh, "affords but limited opportunity to the lover of the illegal." Now, in Germany, on the other hand, trouble is to be had for the asking.
There are many things in Germany that you must not do that are quite easy to do.