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Bayzand said he would try anyway, turned his coach 

 round, and after many difficulties eventually succeeded 

 in reaching Oxford, where the coach was snowed up for 

 several days. 



"Coachman, do you know how much of my valuable 

 time you are wasting?" inquired a querulous passenger 

 fretted by delay. To whom the coachman replied with 

 dignity, "And will you please to remember, sir, that I am 

 losing just as much time as yourself." 



A pompous clergyman received an equally effedlive 

 rebuke from a shepherd boy of whom he inquired the 

 way to Horsepath. The youth grinned but made no 

 reply. 



"Boy," said the cleric haughtily, "do you know who 

 lam?" 



"Noa," drawled the boy indifferently. 



"I am one of those lights sent to show you the way 

 to heaven," said the clergyman impressively. 



"Well, a nice 'un 'ee must be, an' don't know the 

 road to Horsepath," scoffed the shepherd boy. 



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