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left behind. Upon which the bags were forwarded by a 

 post-horse — with a man on his back I presume. As for 

 the Holyhead Mail, it was even more awkwardly situated, 

 though I confess to not seeing clearly how such a state of 

 things could be. However, the horses were almost buried 

 in an attempt to pull the coach out of a drift ; and the 



Porch at Dunstable. 



coachman, with all the hardihood of extreme imbecility, 

 venturing himself to alight, disappeared in the twinkling 

 of an eye into the drift into which he had alighted. At 

 this crisis of affairs a waggon fortunately appeared upon 

 this wintry scene — a waggon fortunately also with four 

 horses in it. The four horses were at once pressed into the 



