This is an audiobook with scrolling karaoke-style text of From the Cabby’s Seat written by O. Henry first published in 1906.

Have you ever ridden in a taxi? Even if you had a driver who interacted with you, it's likely you felt at least a little separated by the divider. And that's in a modern-day taxi! Imagine how different it was in the early 1900s when O. Henry is writing his short story ''From the Cabby's Seat.'' O. Henry opens his story by explaining that the driver of a hansom, a horse-drawn cab, sits on ''the high, swing seat'' looking down on people without any interest in them until that person is interested in hiring the cab.
Even after a person has hired the cab, that person is still pretty much a faceless ''Fare'' to the cabby. O. Henry admits part of the reason for this may be the physical separation caused by how the hansom is built. Even if the cabby were interested in looking at their rider's face, the structure of the hansom makes it pretty much impossible. But, as it happens in this story, the lack of contact can lead to some interesting situations.

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