246 DRIVING. 



quartered in London I used often to go down by the Dover 

 Mail, get on to the up Mail when we met her, and come back 

 again with her to London. The spectacle of the Mails driving 

 into the General Post Office, and coming out of it, arriving or 

 starting, was very pretty and interesting. I used to get a good 

 deal of driving, but never up or down that hill on the other 

 side of Chatham. The coachmen were afraid of a drag-chain 

 breaking and of being discharged if a stranger was driving, and 

 an accident should happen. 



