"If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye."

He could not bear any careless loitering and waste of time;and nothing was so near making him mad as to find people,who were always late, wanting a cab horse to be driven hard,to make up for their idleness.

0ne day two wild-looking youthful men came out of a tavern close by the stand,and called Jerry.

"Here, cabby! look sharp, we are rather late; put on the steam, will you,and take us to the Victoria in time for the one o'clock train?You shall have a shilling extra."

"I will take you at the regular pace, gentlemen; shillings don't payfor putting on the steam like that."