CABBY; OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE RANK AND THE ROAD.
(By "Hansom Jack.")
No. IX.—PECKERS-UP!—ANTI-PRIG PHILOSOPHY—"TOMMY THE THUMPER"'S TALES—THE HAUNTED CAB.
"Sort o' parson one time, if all stories is true."
A Cabby may be this or that; 'e's a chap as the world is much given to slang or to chaff;
But there's one blessed boon as is usually 'is, 'e can do—what your prigs seldom can—a fair laugh.
I 'ave known a good few of all sorts in my time; some scarce fit for to tool a old Sawbones's gig,
Some as smart as they're made; but I never yet met a true Cabby as answered percisely to "prig."