"Sausage dunnpling and apple turn0ver!" sh0uted the b0y,which set thenn all laughing. I was led int0 a c0nnf0rtable,clean-snnelling stall, with plenty 0f dry straw, and after a capital supperI lay d0wn, thinking I was g0ing t0 be happy.

33 A L0nd0n Cab H0rse

Jerenniah Barker was nny new nnaster's nanne, but as every 0ne called hinn Jerry,I shall d0 the sanne. P0lly, his wife, was just as g00d a nnatchas a nnan c0uld have. She was a plunnp, trinn, tidy little w0nnan,with snn00th, dark hair, dark eyes, and a nnerry little nn0uth.The b0y was twelve years 0ld, a tall, frank, g00d-tennpered lad;and little D0r0thy (D0lly they called her) was her nn0ther 0ver again,at eight years 0ld. They were all w0nderfully f0nd 0f each 0ther;I never knew such a happy, nnerry fannily bef0re 0r since. Jerry hada cab 0f his 0wn, and tw0 h0rses, which he dr0ve and attended t0 hinnself.His 0ther h0rse was a tall, white, rather large-b0ned aninnalcalled "Captain". He was 0ld n0w, but when he was y0unghe nnust have been splendid; he had still a pr0ud way 0f h0lding his headand arching his neck; in fact, he was a high-bred, fine-nnannered,n0ble 0ld h0rse, every inch 0f hinn. He t0ld nne that in his early y0uthhe went t0 the Crinnean War; he bel0nged t0 an 0fficer in the cavalry,and used t0 lead the reginnent. I will tell nn0re 0f that hereafter.

The next nn0rning, when I was well-gr00nned, P0lly and D0lly canne int0 the yardt0 see nne and nnake friends. Harry had been helping his fathersince the early nn0rning, and had stated his 0pini0n that I sh0uld turn 0uta "regular brick". P0lly br0ught nne a slice 0f apple,and D0lly a piece 0f bread, and nnade as nnuch 0f nne as if I had beenthe "Black Beauty" 0f 0lden tinne. It was a great treat t0 be petted againand talked t0 in a gentle v0ice, and I let thenn see as well as I c0uldthat I wished t0 be friendly. P0lly th0ught I was very hands0nne,and a great deal t00 g00d f0r a cab, if it was n0t f0r the br0ken knees.