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coachman, the plain tiff had no right to 

 drive returned a verdict for the defendant 

 in the shape of a nonsuit. Thus was their 

 famous rejoicing turned into grief, as the 

 plaintiff had to pay his friendly adviser 140J. 

 for costs, while the defendant, calling no wit- 

 nesses, got off for fifteen, which sum was 

 cheerfully paid; and the issue of the trial 

 was celebrated by my composing a song, in 

 a rather homely but comic strain, giving 

 the whole affair in detail. 



This gave employment to the ballad 

 singers of the town for the remainder of 

 the assize, and a week or two after, and the 

 lyric was not forgotten on the road till the 

 " Rover " had ceased to run. 



It was about this time that I took up 

 with or commenced another profession, that 

 has outlived the last ; and as the origin of 

 so unexampled a conjunction may not be 

 uninteresting, I will give it a place here. 

 Stopping one morning in the early part of 

 the month of October, at the usual place to 



