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to have all ready at a moment's warning, or he would 

 have been terribly angry. Yes, yes, that was indeed 

 an enterprising mind." 



Poor Waghorn ! how he toiled on incessantly to 

 achieve his great work, and what has been the re- 

 ward ? 



The following morning I took a place in the dili- 

 gence to the next post-town, and presently, when we 

 came to a hill, I got out of the carriage and talked 

 with the postillion as we walked up. The conversa- 

 tion of the evening before was still in my thoughts. 



" Did you ever drive the Englishman, Waghorn, 

 when he passed through Lermos ?" I asked of my 

 companion. 



"No," he said, "for I was not at Lermos then; 

 but at Kempten I have seen him. How he drove ! 

 How he went along ! never was seen anything like it. 

 Though I did not drive him, I have heard a great deal 

 about him from my comrades. He paid them im- 

 mensely, and they never could go fast enough for 

 him : he used to keep on scolding them, and telling 

 them to drive faster and faster all the way. Once he 

 came from Trieste to Lermos in thirty-two hours ; but 

 then, you know, he had not to wait a moment, for 

 when it was known he was coming everybody flew." 



" And did they like to have him come?" 



" Oh yes, to be sure ; and when they heard he was 

 in sight, the people used all to run out to see him 

 arrive. Further on there is a hill I'll show it to you 

 as we pass ; well, when Herr Waghorn was expected, 



