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share of draught for about two miles, 

 without the least attempt at gibbing. We 

 then took him out and returned to the 

 " Roebuck." The coach arriving in about 

 half-an-hour, I put him in off-wheel and 

 drove him to Benson, a distance of twelve 

 miles, our first stage ; and no horse ever 

 went better or quieter. 



The next day I drove him back, and the 

 report of this singular feat having spread 

 through the city, I had all the stable fra- 

 ternity in Oxford to greet my return, and 

 not believing such a thing possible, to 

 assure themselves of the identity of the 

 animal; for it appeared that he had been 

 tried by many of Mr. Costar's men, who 

 had all pronounced him incurable, and he 

 had been returned accordingly, as the 

 man from whom I bought him had told 

 me. I continued to drive him as long 

 as the coach lasted ; and it fell to my lot, 

 a year or two later, to renew my ac- 



