156 TOM MORGAN. 



authoress early showed a desire to join 

 the craft, by taking every opportunity in 

 his out-of-school hours, of driving hackney 

 coaches. As he grew up, he has been known, 

 instead of accompanying his Mother, who 

 kept the first society, to a party, to change 

 clothes with the coachman, and take greater 

 delight in performing his functions, than in 

 any company to which his family connec- 

 tions enabled him to gain access.* 



Tom was a tall, handsome fellow, with 

 rather fascinating manners, and was as re- 

 markable for the redundancy of his wit 

 and the keenness of his satire, as he was in 

 the number of his admirers among the un- 

 dergraduates and the tradesmen. 



Among the latter was a hatter, who 

 sought every opportunity of making his 

 society agreeable by continual applications 

 of brandy and water and cigars. 



This commenced an intimacy that in- 

 duced Tom one morning, in going into his 



* Mr. Thomas Morgan, of the Wisbeach drag. 



