Show A cabeen cabmen Cab men aws Ile a A good story is told of a stipendiary magistrate in a yorkshire town not given to err on the side of leniency who heavily fined a cabman for fast driving A few days after the magistrate detained rather longer than usual in the court was hurrying along to catch his train when seeing an empty cab handy I 1 he hailed the driver and directed him to proceed to the station telling him that ho he was pressed for time tho the driver however heedless of the hint kept to a gentle trott trot 1 I say I 1 say my man exclaimed the fare with bis his head out of the window drive faster than it cant be done sir air replied the driver ye see if we drives faster were bad had up afore the beak and we gets fined so we has to be careful he ile did not alter his pace and neither did the beak catch bis his train london tit bita |