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he merely blew out the jet. Awaking nearly suffocated, 

 he at once relieved himself in his crude, emphatic 

 fashion, not by groping for the door, but by delivering 

 " one, two" straight from the shoulder, through the 

 window-panes. He was not an elegant, but a very 

 powerful man on the box, and even during his pro- 

 prietorship he always fee'd both guard and coachman 

 whenever he went with them. Davy kept the in- 

 terests of the coach most rigidly in view, and spared 

 no man if they were jeopardized. When the Cap- 

 tain slackened his pace in the midst of his conver- 

 sation, he used no circumlocution, but exhorted him 

 from behind to " Gie us mair of your fup and less 

 of your claiver;" and when the Captain just grazed a 

 cart, he was at hand in his Aberdonian Doric to 

 caution and correct : " Fat' s the use. Captain, of 

 takhing an inch on the ae side, fan there's ells on 

 tither ?" A little Perth colloquy was overheard be- 

 tween them when the Captain had just finished his 

 dinner at the Salutation. Davy was taking occa- 

 sion to observe publicly that the Captain had "gat a 

 braw red face ;" and he was receiving an elabo- 

 rate explanation to the effect that it was entirely 

 owing to the good dinner, and the glass of punch 

 after it. 



The Captain was unable to attend to the inner 

 man so narrowly, when he had trained Sandy 

 M'Kay, and was taking him up to the fight. People 

 soon learnt^ who that ugly, slouching, round- 

 shouldered man was, on the box-seat, dressed in a 



