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Cabs, with trunks and band-boxes between the drivers’ legs and outside the apron, rattle briskly up and down the streets on their way to the coach-offices or steam-packet wharfs; and the cab-drivers and hackney-coachmen who are on the stand polish up the ornamental part of their dingy vehicles—the former wondering how people can prefer ‘them wild beast cariwans of homnibuses, to a riglar cab with a fast trotter,’ and the latter admiring how people can trust their necks into one of ‘them crazy cabs, when they can have a ’spectable ’ackney cotche with a pair of ’orses as von’t run away with no vun;’ a consolation unquestionably founded on fact, seeing that a hackney-coach horse never was known to run at all, ‘except,’ as the smart cabman in front of the rank observes, ‘except one, and he run back’ards.’
She had had a couple of years' education in Europe, in a suburb of London, which she persisted in calling Ackney to her dying day, whence she had been summoned to join her father at Calcutta at the age of fifteen.
'Just enough alive to suffer through their children. And so the workin' women round about where I live that's 'Ackney they say if we ain't 'eathins in this country let's give up 'eathin ways. Let the mothers o' this country 'ave their 'ands untied. We're willin' to work for our children, but it breaks our 'earts to work without tools. The tool we're needin' is the tool that mends the laws.
"Some take to one thing and some to another, but the most of us try to 'ave a bar-parlour of our own. There's Will Wood, that I beat in forty rounds in the thick of a snowstorm down Navestock way, 'e drives a 'ackney. Young Firby, the ruffian, 'e's a waiter now. Dick 'Umphries sells coals 'e was always of a genelmanly disposition. George Ingleston is a brewer's drayman. We all find our own cribs.
The houses are well-built and far superior to the English average. A little cockney from 'Ackney, who has sailed the six hundred and seventeen miles between London and Cork and has explored most of the South and West, is quite knocked over by Newry. Leaning on the "halpenstock" with which he was about to tackle Cloughmore, he confessed that Newry hupset his hideas of Hireland and the Hirish.
'That, said the turnkey, 'is agen her. 'She is so little used to go out alone, said the debtor, 'that I am at a loss to think how she will ever make her way here, if she walks. 'P'raps, quoth the turnkey, 'she'll take a ackney coach. 'Perhaps. The irresolute fingers went to the trembling lip. 'I hope she will. She may not think of it.
Why, the pore little home is sold up, and the children's scattered among relations, or sent out so young to work it makes yer 'art ache. But if a man dies you see it on every side, in 'Ackney the widow takes in sewin', or goes out charin', or does other people's washin' as well as 'er own, or she mykes boxes something er ruther, any'ow, that makes it possible fur 'er to keep 'er 'ome together.
Guppy, who later, in his declaration of love to her, reminded her of his services on that occasion "I think you must have seen that I was struck with those charms on the day when I waited at the whytorseller. I think you must have remarked that I could not forbear a tribute to those charms when I put up the steps of the 'ackney coach." On their arrival at Bath, Mr. Pickwick and his friends and Mr.
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