3i6 STAGE-COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE 



resigned tlie ribl)ons to indulge a fancy lie had 

 nursed of becoming a farmer. But farming was 

 beyond him : he lost all his money at it, and 

 hanged himself in one of his own barns at Tynant, 



iLLiAM Salt>:k 



JDu'cl Octobe V tlic ^ . 17 jG 



Hfi-e lies Will Sciltoi' lionctti^an 

 ^ neny jt £n\'y ifyoivcan 

 Xrii** to Kis Bu fine fs ^ Ins ttnilt 

 Al^vayt- punctual al%v.-»^s jiift 

 Ri.^ liOT(<es concl tKey fpipaK ^voucltrlT 

 l ln-y loN'tl jlu'ir Qoocl «»IcliTiali"eT' well 

 His Jip hiM work is cLiofly t^one, 

 H^^ Stav^'t' IS eiitleci Kacc i^ x'\in 

 0»»v "ituimcy is -renia 1113110 (till . 



To t iijTil> up Sions holy Kill 

 And now his xiatAjlts ai'c j 

 Clij.* like cli-ivc up fo Heaven 

 TaW tWe it<?>va.rdl of a.11 K»s Paivis 

 And leave tt> otfceT* Kands the Jvem^' 



A STAGE coachman's EPITAPH AT HADDISCOE. 



near Corwcn. Charles Holmes, for more than 

 twenty years coachman and })art-proprietor of the 

 "Old Blenheim" London, Oxford and AVoodstock 

 coach, and the recipient in 1835 of a liandsomo 



