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ostler — no time for blowing up — coach off for 

 next stai>c — lose your money — get in — lose your 

 seat — stuck in the middle — get laughed at — lose 

 your temper— turn sulky — and turned over in 

 a horse pond. 



" Outside. — Your eye cut out by the lash of 

 a clumsy coachman's whip — hat blown off into a 

 pond by a sudden gust of Avind — seated between 

 two apprehended murderers and a noted sheep - 

 stealer in irons, who are being conveyed to gaol — 

 a drunken fellow half -asleep falls off the coach — 

 and in attempting to save himself drags you along 

 with him into the mud — musical guard, and driver 

 horn mad — turned over — one leg under a bale 

 of cotton, the other under the coach — hands in 

 breeches pockets —head in hamper of wine — lots of 

 broken bottles versus broken heads — cut and run- 

 send for surgeon — Avounds dressed, lotion and 

 lint, four dollars — take post-chaise— get home — 

 lie down — and laid up." 



A " humorous " story is told of a coach coming 

 into Dover at night, and the coachman, "feather- 

 edging " a corner, running into a lamp-post. 

 It was the period just after Waterloo. A little 

 Prench count, Avho occupied the box-seat, was 

 thrown off, and, falling on his side, had three 

 ribs fractured. The coachman pulled \\]) and 

 asked a j^assing sailor to pick up the unhappy 

 passenger. The half-drunken tar, seeing a heap 

 of limji clothes on the pavement, said, " There's 

 no gemman here — on 'y a lot of coats." At that 

 moment the Count groaned, " Oh ! l)y gar ! I 



