n'rally, but this
time I see a man take the change an' put it in his pocket. Pretty soon a
man rings the bell an' says, 'Where's the lady's change?' Well, I thinks
here's a go, an' I points to the man and says, 'That there gentleman put
it in his pocket.' Well, that fellow looked like a sheet, an' a
thunder-cloud an' all through the rainbow. He never said nothing but
pulled out the change, gave it up, an' then he got out an' went 'round a
corner like mad. Some don't wait like he did tho', but gits out right
off. One day a chap got out an' another follered him, an they had it out
on the street there, an' we all was a looking on."

Sometimes the drivers make "a haul" in a curious way. Said one: "A man
handed me up a fifty dollar bill one night. I handed it back four times,
and got mad because he wouldn't give me a small bill. He said he hadn't
anything else, and I could take that or nothing, so, I gave him change
for a dollar bill, and kept forty-nine dollars and ten cents for his
fare. He didn't say anything, and after a while he got out. Why, the
other day a lady gave me a hundred dollar note, and when I told her I
thought she'd faint. 'My goodness!' said she, 'I didn't know it was more
than one.' Such people ought to be beat; they'd be more careful when
they lose a few thousand."

"Some fellows," said another driver, "give you ten or fifteen cents, an'
swear they give you a fifty cent stamp, an' you have to give them change
for fifty cents, or they'll may be go to the office an' make a fuss, an'
the bosses will sooner take their word than yours, an' you'll get
sacked."

One of the most laborious ways of "turning an honest penny" was brought
to my notice by one of these knights of the whip. Said he: "Has you been
a watchin' of my business this morning? P'r'aps you aint took notice of
the money I'm takin' in? No, I guess not." The latter remark was
followed by a rough laugh, in which I thought there was distinguishable a
little more than mere merriment, especially when I heard a mumbled
imprecation. He continued aloud: "I aint seen any yet myself." Soon the
bell rang, and a ticket was passed up. "Well," said he, "he's goin' it
strong, to be sure; this here's the fourteenth ticket I've had on this
trip." An explanation being solicited, the fact was revealed that there
was a man inside who made a practice of buying twelve tickets for a
dollar, then seating himself near the bell, he would take the far