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fast driving, did not redound much to my 

 advantage. The town of Petersfield was 

 up in arms against the rash and inexperi- 

 enced young man who could so endanger 

 the lives of his passengers; and as my 

 father had lived among them many years, 

 the principal gentleman or magistrate 

 thought proper to write to him on 

 the subject. 



The proprietor of the "Anchor," at Lip- 

 hook, too, who had suffered most severely 

 from this spirited contest, wrote to 

 him a long letter of complaint. The 

 consequence was, I had a business-like but 

 parental admonition, which did not tend 

 to make me further in love with the 

 profession I had adopted, or to render 

 me more inclined to support the gibes 

 and taunts of my old associates. 



However this, like most other occur- 

 rences of a similar nature, was, in the 

 course of a short time, remembered only 



