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ready for you at Dereham " (a town on the road to 

 Lynn). 



We got the horses put into the stables for twenty 

 minutes, and had some coffee and off again. We 

 arrived at Lynn about 10.30. On the way Colonel 

 Oakes, the Chief-Constable (formerly of the Life 

 Guards), overtook us in a waggonette with some 

 policemen. 



We formed up in front of the Mayor's house. 

 We had not been there ten minutes when the rioters 

 appeared, eight abreast, arm in arm, right across the 

 street. They came to a corner, saw the troop, all 

 stopped, then marched on, turned down a street and 

 , we never saw them again. 



Our men were sent to their billets and ordered 

 not to unsaddle their horses. They fed them and 

 lay down on the straw beside them. 



I got some breakfast, lay down on the hearthrug 

 with a sofa cushion under my head, and fell fast 

 asleep. I had been out twenty-six hours and ridden 

 over 126 miles. 



Colonel Oakes and his men went and arrested the 

 ringleaders, and we heard no more of the riot. The 

 dock porters had struck and threatened to burn down 

 the Mayor's house. 



We were kept there about a month, and had a 

 happy time of it, for we had nothing to do, and Mr. 

 Villebois, the old squire at Marham, allowed us to go 

 there whenever we liked. 



One night we had dined there and returned to 

 Lynn in Hughes's gig. When we got into the town 



