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Erisby, and had several times warned him, without 

 aA'ail. His thighs were broken, and he received 

 a severe concussion of the brain, from which he 

 died at midnight. Frisby himself Avas crippled 

 for life. 



The pitcher goes oft to the well, l)ut at last 

 it is broken ; and so likewise the coachmen 

 who, Avinter and summer, storm or shine, had 

 driven for almost a generation over the same 

 Avell-knoAvn routes, at length met their death on 

 them in some unforeseen manner. A striking 

 instance of this Avas the sad end of William 

 TJpfold—" unlucky Upfold "— Avho Avas coachman 

 of the "Times" Brighton and Southampton Stage, 

 a coach Avliich ran by Avay of Worthing and 

 Chichester. He Avas a steady and reliable man, 

 fifty- four years of age, and had been a coachman 

 for thirty-five years, Avlien fatal mischance slew 

 him on a February night, 1840. A singularly 

 long series of more or less serious accidents had 

 constantly attended him from 1831. In that year 

 his leg AA'^as broken in an upset, and he had only 

 just recovered and resumed his place Avhen the 

 coach Avas overturned again, this time through 

 the breaking of an axle. The injuries he received 

 kept him a long time idle. Again, in January 

 1832, at ]3osham, the furies Avere eager for 

 his destruction. He got off at the Avayside inn, 

 and left the reins in the hands of a passenger, 

 Avho very foolishly alighted also, a minute or so 

 later. When Upfold saAV him enter the inn he 

 hastily left it ; but the horses had already started. 

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