CHAPTER XII. 



'ON THE BOX.' 



BY THE 



DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G. 



THOSE who have never travelled on or 

 in stage-coaches can have no idea of the 

 pleasures experienced by those who made 

 such journeys in former days, supposing 

 the traveller had any fondness for horses, 

 and entered into the fun of the road. It cannot 

 be said that the inside passenger enjoyed him- 

 self much, cramped up in small space with 

 perhaps three other people. If one was an old 

 woman, she was sure to have a canary-bird or 



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