But Tiny, who only really cared about his food, answered,
"Yes, yes, my dear, I know, I know," and fussed off with the bag, and climbed on to the box of the cab, because, he said, he was such friends with the cabman, and began to whip up the horse, and tug at the reins, shouting,
"Gee-woa! Gee-woa!" for it was one of Tiny's things that he thought he was very good at a horse.
But the cabman, who was rusty and crusty in an old top-hat, said,
"Leggo, will ye?" and went into Tiny's wind with his elbow to quiet him.
So they drove across the moor, over the hill, down to the lake, till they came to the house.
And in the window hung a cardboard saying,
Lessons, Singing, and Boxing taught here: for it is a school as well as a lodging; only no pupils come.
And in the porch the landlady was sitting in curls, playing with her thumbs rather dumpily.
But when Tiny bustled down with the bag, yelling,