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ing with me on indifferent subjects; at 

 other times on things more immediately 

 connected with his own business on va- 

 rious roads, but chiefly on that in which 

 I was now most interested. 



It so happened that there had been 

 an accident the preceding winter to the 

 Lynn coach that is, the coach that ran 

 the alternate days by which a young 

 lady had received some little injury, for 

 which her Father demanded compensation, 

 and would willingly have accepted 50L 

 for damages sustained. This was indig- 

 nantly refused by the Cambridge pro- 

 prietor, to whom the matter was left ; con- 

 sequently an action ensued, which was tried 

 in London, when the plaintiff obtained a 

 verdict for 700/. damages: thereby, with 

 the costs 300?. more the company suf- 

 fered to the enormous amount of 10007. 



It was upon this occasion I first saw 

 the Lynn proprietor,* and a strange spe- 



* The late Rev. Arrow. 



