Most likely not, said Jerry; but I don't know that I shall be the
less happy for that. I have heard the commandments read a great many
times and I never noticed that any of them said, 'Thou shalt be rich';
and there are a good many curious things said in the New Testament about
rich men that I think would make me feel rather queer if I was one of
them.
If you ever do get rich, said Governor Gray, looking over his shoulder
across the top of his cab, you'll deserve it, Jerry, and you won't find
a curse come with your wealth. As for you, Larry, you'll die poor; you
spend too much in whipcord.
Well, said Larry, what is a fellow to do if his horse won't go
without it?
You never take the trouble to see if he will go without it; your whip
is always going as if you had the St. Vitus' dance in your arm, and
if it does not wear you out it wears your horse out; you know you are
always changing your horses; and why? Because you never give them any
peace or encouragement.
Well, I have not had good luck, said Larry, that's where it is.
And you never will, said the governor. Good Luck is rather particular
who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense
and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
Governor Gray turned round again to his newspaper, and the other men
went to their cabs.
36 The Sunday Cab
One morning, as Jerry had just put me into the shafts and was fastening
the traces, a gentleman walked into the yard. Your servant, sir, said
Jerry.
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