i6o REV. JOHN RUSSELL 



done with a couple of hacks, " Meg Merrihes " 

 and "Ladybird," the last by " Anacreon " from 

 Mr. H. Bourchier Wrey's " Ellen," by " Rain- 

 bow," doing her eighteen miles an hour each 

 way. The country-folk, at first sight, must 

 have taken him for Dick Turpin himself ; and, 

 if they did not raise the hue-and-cry, 



"Stop thief! stop thief! a hig-hwayman ! " 



they must have been sharp enough to discover 

 that the mare Mr. Harris rode was a bright 

 bay, and not the veritable " Black Bess," of 

 matchless speed and historic renown. 



