THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 

 A STAGE-COACHMAN. 



CHAPTER I. 



BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND EDUCATION. 



A Novel Commencement A London Coach-office A 

 Country one A Provincial Book-keeper Lord Bacon 

 Shakespere Lord Byron Inquisitiveness An Import- 

 ant Confession A Father A Mother A Prognostic- 

 Alexander Pope The Itchen A Scene in Hampshire 

 Gibbon A Popular Divine A Tyrannical Pedagogue 

 An Instructor of Youth A Long Ride A Hasty 

 Decision. 



BEFORE the new method of travelling had 

 quite superseded the old, when railways had 

 not become so general as they now are, the 

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