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she had stopped with every coachman in turn at the 

 end of two miles. At last they all wearied of her, 

 and the orders were, if she rebelled again, not to bring 

 her back alive. She accordingly left Penrith, and got 

 a few miles in the Glasgow mail, when, according to 

 her wont, she suddenly sulked, and sat down upon her 

 haunches like a dog, with her fore-legs straight out 

 before her. The coachman got down, took a rail out 

 of the hedge, and struck her nine times below the 

 knees with the flat side of it. Such energetic treat- 

 ment brought her to, and she and her drivers " lived 

 happily together ever after." 



It was once a regular money contest between the 

 London papers which could spend most in posting so 

 as to beat the mail, and each other, when they re- 

 ported a great dinner or trial in the country. At the 

 coronation the Sun was printed in letters of gold , 

 and when the Reform Bill of 1832 was proposed, it 

 had expresses to catch up the mails with a second 

 edition containing Lord John's speech to the latest 

 hour. When Sir Robert Peel spoke at Glasgow, its 

 outer form was printed off and taken down to Kendal, 

 where the reporters from Glasgow met it, with their 

 speech notes all ready written out. The inner form 

 was printed off there, and thus the people in Glasgow 

 read the speech printed in a London paper before, by 

 ordinary calculation, it had time to . reach London. 

 When Bolam was tried, one London reporter left 

 Newcastle by the mail without the verdict, while 

 another waited for it, and caught up the mail by hard 

 galloping, after bribing the postboys to hold their 

 tongues. The two reporters went on side by side all 

 the way to London, and the Times never murmured 

 its secret in dreams. 



Our Recollections of Carlisle Swifts go back some 

 three-and-forty years. Springkell and Fair Helen's 

 day was over, and the Maxwell family had ceased to 

 have perpetual seisin of the massive gold cup. Mr. 



