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the coach at the time. Black Will, as the people used to call 

 him, a well-known whip, went to London with Tollit on the 

 box-seat one day, and just after he changed horses at Beacons 

 field, and was going down Dupree's Pitch, as it was called, one 

 of the leaders began kicking and got one of her legs over the 

 inside traces. Black Will asked Tollit if he was not going to 

 stop, but he replied, ' No, not till I get to Gerrard's Cross, for 

 if I do she will begin again.' ' Well,' the other said, ' I have 

 been driving for forty years and never dared to do a thing of 

 the sort.' Tollit drove the animal right through to London, 

 and she never kicked afterwards. 



