44 COACHING. 



box which fat Tom and the monkey sat upon 

 behind." 



" So." 



" Then within the coach there was Sir Francis, 

 my Lady, the great fat lap-dog, Squire Hum- 

 phrey, Miss Bettyj my Lady's maid, Mrs. 

 Handy, and Dolly the cook ; but she was so 

 ill with sitting backward that they mounted her 

 into the coachbox." 



"Very well." 



" Then, Sir, for fear of a famine before they 

 could get to the baiting-place, there were such 

 baskets of plum-cake, Dutch gingerbread, 

 Cheshire cheese, Naples biscuits, macaroons, 

 neats' tongues, and cold boiled beef — and in 

 case of sickness, such bottles of usquebagh, 

 black cherry brandy, cinnamon-water, sack, 

 tent, and strong beer, as made the old coach 

 crack again ; and for defence of this good cheer 

 and my Lady's little pearl necklace, there was 

 the family basket-hilt sword, the great Turkish 

 scimitar, the old blunderbuss, a good bag of 

 bullets, and a great horn of gunpowder." 



" Admirable." 



" Then for bandboxes, they were so bepiled 

 up to Sir Francis's nose that he could only 

 peep out at a chance hole with one eye, as if he 



