Show the summer butterfly Dutter fly in london I 1 wonder if i you know what a I 1 sumner butterfly is if you were ri skilled killed 1 n the ways of the cabby yon you would know that it is the small tradesman who turns cabman during the season returning to his legitimate occupation when autumn sets in butterflies are being gradually weeded ort by the tha police and a man is allowed to take out a cab drivers license only when he can prove that he be is what he represents himself to be A carmans cab mans earnings greatly depend I 1 may say on en luck inck accordingly the weekly wage day aay range from as low as 10 shillings to as high as a 12 3 at certain seasons the hours as you know arnow aro exceedingly longy long suppo supposing ding a man turns tarns out at 10 a in he drives the same horse from six to seven hours and then changing horses goei goe on till 8 in the morning there is not so much difference between I 1 hansom cab drivers and the four wheel men as the public seem to imagine not kot infrequently drivers drivere change and change about thus a four wheeler who feels that the moving ef cf heavy loses boxes is past his strength will t take ake a hansom or again the hansom cabby who finds that his exposed position brings on rheumatism and kindred ill ilia s will change in favor of the more jog trot vehicle there is scarcely a well known cab driver in london but has ba q his own special specia 1 appellation generally given to him in view of some physical or mental peculiarity some idea of the literary attainments and wide knowledge of cabby can be given by the fact that among the nicknames may be found trilby I 1 I 1 lord randolph churchill flop the beadle ulster jack sweet apple joe busy bee garibaldi I 1 nicodemus Nicodem usand and four in hand band not infrequently the men arg are known to one another only by their pseudonyms london sketch |