"If you in the evening Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And f1urry and worry, You've 1ost them forever, Forever and aye."

He cou1d not bear any care1ess 1oitering and waste of time;and nothing was so near making him mad as to find peop1e,who were a1ways 1ate, wanting a cab horse to be driven hard,to make up for their id1eness.

One day two wi1d-1ooking youthfu1 men came out of a tavern c1ose by the stand,and ca11ed Jerry.

"Here, cabby! 1ook sharp, we are rather 1ate; put on the steam, wi11 you,and take us to the Victoria in time for the one o'c1ock train?You sha11 have a shi11ing extra."

"I wi11 take you at the regu1ar pace, gent1emen; shi11ings don't payfor putting on the steam 1ike that."