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donkey with the view of freeing herself from 

 your society. Her trotting action in harness, 

 however, was surprising, for with the long 

 sweeping stride she would skim over the 

 ground twelve or fourteen miles an hour, 

 and you would not think you were going 

 more than nine. 



Co-temporary with the worthies I have 

 named was an eccentric gentleman who 

 lived at Harmston Hall, and amongst the 

 diversities of his amusements horsed and drove 

 a coach, with varied experiences to his 

 passengers, for he sometimes had a team out 

 of which one or two had never before 

 been troubled with a collar. As might be 

 expected the escapes of his travellers were 

 curious and blood curdling to the timid, perhaps 

 the least risky that of being toppled over a 

 fence into an adjoining field when the ob- 

 streperous team went in a heap into the 

 roadside ditch. An anecdote, as related to me 

 by an old friend — since gathered to his 

 fathers — after visiting the coaching squire 

 may be worthy of record. It was on this wise : 

 On the morning after my friend's arrival, the 

 squire, who kept harriers, and had some 



