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with all who came in contact with them ; Steven- 

 son, the high-bred University man, who, if 

 not, up to " coaching " young graduates for 

 college honours, easily won his "great go" 

 on the box ; Parson Dennis, who drove the 

 " White Lion" coach to Bath, knew more 

 of modern than biblical Jehus ; Black Will, 

 who drove the Oxford "Defiance," rather 

 ferocious in appearance, but gentle by nature 

 as a lamb. Others, too, I might mention, if 

 memory served me, who raised themselves to 

 the highest pinnacle of fame as civih obliging, 

 and intelligent men. 



Having already given the doings of others 

 on the road, I shall now proceed to record 

 my own, hoping that I may be forgiven for 

 indulo-iDCT in that offensive of all offensive 

 pronouns — I. 



" The root of all learning," writes Aristotle, 

 " is bitter, but the fruit is sweet," an 

 apothegm which will particularly apply to 

 driving. 



I well remember, when I was at a private 

 tutor's, at Littlewick-green, Maidenhead Thicket, 

 and subsequently at Donnington-grove, near 

 Newbury, and a bit of a swell, being greatly 

 smitten with the saying of the above learned philo- 



