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The driver turned away and whipped up the horses. "I've never seen anythink strynge in my life," he said. "Kimmup there! Kimmup!..." "But I thought that 'bus-drivers always saw romantic things!" "I dunno wot you're talkin' abaht. Look 'ere, young feller, are you a reporter, or wot are you?" "A reporter!" "Yus. One of these 'ere noospyper chaps?" "No."
Davis it was a simple and pleasant pattern good and bad, honest and dishonest, kind and cruel, with the good, the honest, and the kind rewarded; the bad, the dishonest, and the cruel punished; where the heroes are modest, the brave generous, the women lovely, the bus-drivers humorous; where the Prodigal returns to dine in a borrowed dinner-jacket at Delmonico's with his father, and where always the Young Man marries the Girl.
They sport flowers in their button- holes and salute other bus-drivers, when they meet, with a twist of whip and elbow refreshingly correct, showing that they take pride in their calling, and have been at some pains to turn themselves out as smart in appearance as finances would allow.
Of course, there is that terrible "influx" into the towns, but I for one should be much interested to know wherein the existence of the rustic in times past was healthier than the existence of the town-dwellers of to-day. The personal appearance of agricultural veterans does not help me; they resemble starved 'bus-drivers twisted out of shape by lightning.
He seemed to have an intuitive understanding not only of his own art but of every art and craft, and it was some time before one realised that he attained this miraculous virtuosity by an absolute disdain for every other form of human endeavour. He knew nothing of the great general or millionaire or man of science, and he cared as little for them as for fishermen or 'bus-drivers.
London bus-drivers have plenty to tell, and are not at all loath to tell it especially after the encouragement of a tip. John was delighted to hear about the time, one foggy Christmas Eve, when his friend had "sat for four hours, sir, without daring to stir, at 'Yde Park Corner."
I like the smell of warm kitchens and the talk of bus-drivers, and bread and herrings for my tea all the low satisfactions appeal to me. Beer, too, and hand-organs." "I don't know when to believe you. He talks about her quite freely, and and so do I. She is really interesting in her way." "And in perspective." "Why should you be odiously smart.
In one month was immense excitement because the strike of eleven thousand insufferable London taxi-drivers drove everybody into the splendid busses; and in another month immense excitement because the strike of all the insufferable London bus-drivers drove everybody into the splendid taxis.
"Oscar" took the place of their favourite word as a term of contempt, and they shouted it at each other on all sides; bus-drivers, cabbies and paper sellers using it in and out of season with the keenest relish. For the moment the upper classes lay mum- chance and let the storm blow over.
As I ride up town this unpleasant impression deepens. In the "little Mother Isle" I have just left, bus-drivers have quite a coaching air, with hat and coat of knowing form.
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