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caused me in little less than two years to 

 tire of my continual long drive. In the 

 morning, particularly in the winter, from 

 bed to the box, and in the evening from 

 the box to bed, became too wearing to suit 

 either my inclination or my constitution. 

 I had no time for the employment of the 

 mind, while the hands were thus daily and 

 hourly occupied ; and though to all ap- 

 pearance I was revelling in out-door en- 

 joyment, I could but consider myself a pri- 

 soner, as I was confined to the same scenery 

 daily, and to the same drudgery, as such 

 continual work made it. I could not 

 escape, even for a day, without the 

 indulgence being embittered with the loss 

 of the profits of the day's work for with 

 me it was " no longer fiddle, no longer 

 pay." 



Independent of this, there was a great 

 inconvenience attending my continuing to 

 drive both coaches ; they belonged to two 

 different proprietors in London the yards 



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