206 COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. 



A 1, among many of the same rank who 

 one and all so liberally and so kindly 

 patronized me on my last stage. This 

 most excellent specimen of a country 

 gentleman* frequently honoured me with 

 his company on the box, and was always 

 most particular in giving me the reins 

 after I had remounted, always separating 

 them, and saying, " There are your leaders, 

 sir, and there your wheel-horses;" rather 

 overstrained caution, perhaps, and ap- 

 proaching a little to what might be 

 called the pedantic, but caution not to 

 be despised, and, as has been seen, not 

 at all times injudicious. 



But the most serious accident of this 

 description on that road at the time I 

 speak of, was the overturn of the Holyhead 

 mail, by which one of the passengers was 

 killed. An inquest was held at the " Pea- 

 hen,' 7 St. Albans, as it occurred just on the de- 



* Tyssen, Esq., of Narborough. 



