Seedy Sam Quotes

″‘Tis a mockery to tell a man that he must not overwork his horse, for when a beast is downright tired there’s nothing but the whip that will keep his legs a-going; you can’t help yourself—you must put your wife and children before the horse; the masters must look to that, we can’t. I don’t ill-use my horse for the sake of it; none of you can say I do. There’s wrong lays somewhere—never a day’s rest, never a quiet hour with the wife and children. I often feel like an old man, though I’m only forty-five.”

“You know that’s true, and if the horses don’t work we must starve, and I and my children have known what that is before now.”

“You that have your own horses and cabs, or drive for good masters, have a chance of getting on and a chance of doing right; I haven’t.”