PAESON DENNIS. / O 



justice to the fare, wliicli consisted of a splen- 

 did boiled leo^ of mutton and a ham-aud-veal 

 pie. 



" I go no further, gentlemen," said the 

 coachman. 



"All right," I responded, handing him a gold 

 seven-shilling piece, then a current coin of the 

 realm. 



" Good morning ! and thank you, my Lord," 

 replied the deposed monarch of the whip. " I've 

 told Mr. Dennis (commonly called Parson 

 Dennis) that your Lordship has your driving- 

 gloves on." 



Again mounting the box, I found myself 

 seated by one of the smartest men I ever met 

 with at that period on the road. There was an 

 air of conceit about him that was truly amusing, 

 and it was rendered doubly so by his affected 

 style of conversation. Unlike other dragsmen, 

 he was dressed in the plainest style imaginable — 

 a well-brushed black beaver hat, glossier than 

 silk ; a brown cutaway coat, dark Oxford mixed 

 overalls, highly-polished Wellington boots, and 

 fawn-coloured double kid gloves. The first 

 object of my new companion was to inform me 

 that he was well born, that he had been educated 

 at Oxford, aud that he was the most popular 



