The same hitch occurred in Montreal, where the same Friend of Liberty had to pay in silver before the cab-drivers consented to accept a fare either from him or from the commissioners.

He had been a cab horse, and his mouth had been jerked, and twisted, and sawed at, till one would think there could be no feeling left in it; still I have seen him wince and curl up his lip when Jenkins thrust in the frosty bit on a winter's morning.

After looking at the house Crewe walked back to the cab-stand at Hyde Park Corner.

A man he knew looked out from the cab window.

He adopted this course because he knew that the driver, who gave his name as Taylor, would be more likely to talk freely in an office where he could not be overheard than he would do on the cab-rank with his fellow-drivers crowding him, or in an hotel parlour where other people were present.

["If taxi-cab fares are increased it will put a stop to tipping.

She turned to the cab door, and Lister imagined she was hardly conscious of the money he had given her.

He had therefore no alternative to avert starvation but to follow the precarious calling of a cab-runner.

The cab ride and the hotel seemed loud in comparison.

In the open cabs men and women sat side by side, now husbands and wives long since married, now chance couples who had met but an hour ago.

She bolted from the box in the dark, I was told, and as she couldn't be found afterwards they concluded she had rushed out and taken a cab home.

As to the other antecedents, they were no concern of mine, though Mr. Bellingham seemed to think otherwise, for he resumed: "That cab business was the last straw, you know, and it finished me off, but I have been going down the hill for a long time.

[Illustration: SIR A. MOND AND AN EFFICIENT CAB SERVICE FOR MEMBERS.

" Exception has recently been taken to the cab-shelter in Palace Yard, some Members objecting that its architectural design was out of harmony with that of the Houses of Parliament, and others complaining that its internal attractions were so great as to seduce the taxi-men from paying any attention to prospective fares.

A short time later they were in a cab speeding toward Waikiki.

At the livery stables one can hire outfits by the day or hourthe legal price being 63 cents an hour or 56 cents to any point within the city limits, and there is an excellent cab system, with what is known as the "taxameter" register.

By and bye he bethought himself of the time, and took a cab uptown.

One night a middle-aged man, who had lived all his life far from the noise of cab-wheels, a young girl, a relation of his, who was reported to be enough of a seer to catch a glimpse of unaccountable lights moving over the fields among the cattle, and myself, were walking along a far western sandy shore.

Mac was not for haveing anny when he first seen Maggie, but he was vext at you, and I eggged him on with telling him he was feared, and he took her in a cab becaus it was poring, and maybe he gave her a bit sqeese, I do not no for certin, but it is more like she began it, for Maggie woud rather take a cuddel nor a good dinner anny day.

"Twenty-four then," said my friend, in a very decided tone, "and not another sixpenceyes, or no?" "Done," said the salesman; "and you may depend upon it there's a monstrous deal of quality in that horse, and if you want him for cab work he's a bargain.

He went to police headquarters, to the newspapers to offer a reward, to the cab companies, everywhere, in short, where a trace of hope led him.

Once or twice he nearly had his head knocked off by sticking it out of the windows; but by some happy chance he got interested in the cab curtains and the inviting little strings, which, when pulled, made them fly up with a snap.

I heard the wicket slam and then I 'eard a cab drive off over the stones.

The day after he was free from cab duty Jarvis went to the Little Theatre to get a report from "The Vision."

Down in the pit of the engine-cab the fireman, a great shovel in his hands, stood ready to feed the ravenous fires.