Jerry's New Year (Ch45 / Q4)

The setting is important in this chapter because it represents the terrible time cab drivers had during the winter. In this chapter Beauty's happy time with Jerry comes to an end. Christmas, a very jolly time with parties and presents, but not everyone is so jolly. For cab drivers and their horses it is anything but jolly. They have to wait out in the freezing rain, sleet, or snow. Two men had hired Jerry to wait for them at a party and Jerry got there exactly on time, but they had to wait for two and a half hours with Jerry cough getting worse and worse. When he finally got home he was very ill. Jerry got better, but he couldn't go back to cab work and the horses were sold. Poor Beauty and Hotspur.