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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



its effects) of a doctor of physic, who had been making 

 hay while the sun shone and the plague was rampant ; 

 in the company, lastly, of the clerk from Oxford, whom 

 much study had made — not mad — but as lean and 

 leaden-eyed as Eugene Aram ever was. 



Not that I intend to travel with this famed company 

 all the way to Canterbury. They did not hurry them- 

 selves enough ; sat too long telling discursive stories by 



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The Old I'abard, Soiit/nvark. 



the way-side, which may be read to advantage in editions 

 carefully prepared for ladies' colleges and the young. 

 And here I may perhaps remark with advantage — to 

 myself (in case it may appear that 1 am on history bent 

 rather than on coaching) — that the purely coaching 

 record of the Dover Road is a thing only to be touched 

 on briefly. For in point of fact it is " thin," as dra- 

 matic critics would say, in the extreme. The following 



