206 ANN NELSON. 



It being drawn by a pair only, it did us 

 no harm, and would have died a natural 

 death, had its starters not been assisted by 

 the all-powerful Ann Nelson, who had 

 found means of making her name known 

 on almost every road out of London. It 

 was then, judiciously on their parts, con- 

 verted into a night coach ; and though 

 it might, and did, lessen our monthly 

 dividends, it was no longer an eye-sore, 

 except to my friend and partner Robert, 

 who generally met it as it came from 

 Lynn, and always on the Tuesday that 

 being the market-day his old acquaint- 

 ance, the Streatham Farmer, having hold 

 of the reins. 



It so happened that one fine summer 

 evening, as Bob was going in to Lynn 

 with his own drag, he met his old friend 

 coming out with the " Rover," as the 

 night coach was called. The road was 

 wide enough, but the farmer being a 

 very bad hand, suffered his leaders to 



