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drive the more * (I must apologise for thus rendering 

 Miss Berry), then my ' point' will have hit its object. 



I have appended to the work a glossary of terms 

 used in connection with 'The Road.' These, with the 

 specimens of the Road slang which I have given, will be 

 found, I trust, useful and amusing to all lovers of the road. 

 They are really a part — no small part either — of the 

 lessons to be learnt by the aspirant to the ' box.' 



I have to offer my very best thanks to Mr. Benthall, 

 of the General Post Office, for aiding me in matters re- 

 lating to the history of mail coaches, and also to Mr. 

 Nevill, late guard on the Carlisle mail. I am much 

 indebted to Mr. Gould of the G.P.O. for the use of his 

 pictures of the different mails in snow storms. 



Bangalore, India: December 1874. 



1 Like Tommy, the eccentric Lord Onslow, of whom George Selwyn 



said : — 



Little Tommy Titmouse, what can he do ? 



Drive a phaeton and two. 



What can little Tommy do more ? 



Drive a phaeton and four. 



This jest was first broached in a box at the Opera house ; and Lady Bridget 

 Tollemache immediately observed, ' Little Tommy, then, has changed from 

 On-slow to On-fast' 



Mediocre, though, if from a wit professed, 

 The listening world content repeats the jest. 



