8 KEELEY. 



side coach the dull monotony of the 

 surrounding country, covered, as it were, 

 with one white sheet, calling for little 

 or no observation, could only be re- 

 lieved by conversation; and my brother, 

 who possessed a good flow of animal 

 spirits, kept us alive by some piquant 

 remark on every little occurrence, or 

 by otherwise evoking the laughter of us 

 all by his powers of mimicry, which he 

 would exercise indiscriminately on those 

 present as well as absent. 



He was altogether an oddity, and had 

 a strong inkling for the stage ; and 

 when I mention that the celebrated 

 Keeley was his brother apprentice and 

 close associate, the reader will not won- 

 der at his imbibing and possessing a 

 fund of amusement, aided as he was by 

 a comic expression of countenance. 



At Newcastle we slept, and very glad 

 was I to get a night's rest, though it 



