Actor? 'E's good as a pantermine, Chollop is. 'E can play simple and soft as a babby;
Make you emagine 'e's some gawping chawbacon 'stead of a hartful and up-to-date Cabby.
Struck a bright once. At the risk of 'is life stopped a runaway carriage. Old gent, name o' Jenner,
Told 'im to call at 'is 'ouse the next day; and, when Chollop turned up, old gent tipped 'im a tenner!
'E set some store on 'is life, that old codger did. Many a swell, whose sole motter seems "collar,"
After a sharp risky service like that, would 'a' thought a mere Cabby well paid with a dollar.
Many a charge against Cabbies is cackled, and many a bit o' sharp practice recorded,
But 'onesty don't come as sweet as it should when you know wot some mean by the words "well rewarded."
Wealth 'as rum notions of wages—sometimes. I once 'ad a case as tots up in this manner:—
To saving a bosky old toff from two footpads, and drivin' 'im 'ome (two miles) two-and-a-tanner!