But that day, it was a short story from Chekhov. “Toska” is a story written in 1886 about Iona, a sledge-driver (aka a cabman), who sits, horse and buggy, in the cold Russian winter (with snow ...

(Laughter.) . . . His heart went out to [cabmen] in their very trying work. It could not, for instance, be easy for a cabman to keep his temper when he had got a Pickford in front and a motor-’bus ...