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on the coach, indeed, he never drove any 

 other. He had, by his civil and obliging 

 manner, secured the good will of the inha- 

 bitants of Lynn, and advanced in the 

 favour of the gentry in the surrounding 

 district. 



Bob was no blustering, bouncing, flash 

 dragsman, like one or two I . have already 

 described, but a well-conducted, straight- 

 forward, honest sort of man, who aspired 

 to nothing beyond being on good terms 

 with his employers and his passengers; 

 with his profession and with himself. 

 Neither was he any great scholar indeed, 

 he had been educated for the box, and the 

 box alone: for as a boy, I was told, he 

 used to stand between the knees of his 

 brother-in-law of half-a-pipe notoriety, and 

 learn from him an excellent schoolmaster 

 how, in vulgar parlance, to handle the 

 ribbons. 



'Thus had he grown, as it were, with the 

 coach, and become part and parcel of the 



