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ploded, and the driver in general so well togged, his linen 

 white as snow, and viewed not only as one of the best 

 dressed, but frequently the best behaved, man upon the 

 coach ; full of anecdote, anxious to please all parties, 

 cheerful and merry, frequently humming some well- 

 known air ; by which means a journey of fifty or sixty 

 miles in our days is disposed of so quickly as to appear 

 more like a matter of pleasure than the dull heavy routine 

 connected with business and fatigue. And such a one 

 was ' Bill-put-em-along.' 



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