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brushed ^'Lincoln & Bennett" as neeci be, as well 

 as cause sundry very unparliamentary expressions to 

 proceed from its discomforted wearer. 



I fear also, alas ! that I thereby deprived my worthy 

 driver of anything over and above the actual fare 

 laid down by Mogg, for he certainly jagged me in 

 the mouth as we again got under weigh in a manner 

 which was neither conducive to my comfort or his 

 wont. I had several other short "runs" that after- 

 noon ; but my thoughts were in the past, and I did 

 not, I Jvnow, work as cheerfully as usual. Indeed, I 

 fear I must have thoroughly disgusted my coachman, 

 good soul, for, on taking me back to our stables, 

 he distinctly called me " an idle old warmint," and 

 omitted to give me his accustomed pat on departure — 

 a caress which I look for and value a good deal 

 now-a-days. 



When the rough old stableman who looks after me 

 and five others (what would his stud groom have said 

 to that ?) had done us up that evening, I just thought 

 seriously over my past history, and could come to 

 no other conclusion than that I had been treated 

 uncommon shabbily. I remember Mr. Thankless 

 buying me as a four-year-old from young Greenfield. 

 I had not then been over from Ireland more than 

 three months, and was, although " I says it as 

 oughtn't," about as smart a youngster as one could 



