CHAPTER II 



MISCELLANY 



Characters of all Grades — The Great Lord Chief — Discontent — The 

 Eoad to Improvement — Manchester Cobom'g — Lawrence Sterne 

 — Liverpool Umpire — A Scene at Finchley — One of the Eudi- 

 ments of the Art — A Particular Gentleman — The Two Holyhead 

 Mails — An Inquest — Doleful Interview — An Anomaly in Law — 

 The Ship-Doctor — Morning Call — Portrait — Eeception — Great 

 Horse — Thirsty Soul — A Brother — The Bay of Naples — 

 Wounded Officer — An Operation —Trifling Error — Magnanimity 

 and Forbearance — Messmates — Tobias Smollett — Hearty Buck 

 — St. Albans — An Easter Sunday — The Abbey — Devotion — A 

 Family Picture — St. Augustin — History — Purity of Election — 

 Gallantry — A Funeral — Stratford-on- Avon — Woodstock — Wal - 

 lingford — The Miller — Strange Courtesy — Impromptu — The 

 Passing Bell — The Churchyard. 



Among the numerous varieties of human character I was 

 enabled to study on the box, there chanced to be a sweep, 

 who travelled with me two or three times a year. 

 Though he was a master man — and came to collect his 

 money from his diiferent customers, the Hertfordshire 

 farmers in that neighbourhood, who used his soot for 

 manure — and I daresay a wealthy man, yet was he every 

 inch a sweep — in appearance, compass of intellect, and 

 desires ; for he seemed to have no wish to be ranked 

 above his profession. How little beyond him in conver- 

 s'ation and capacity were one or two noblemen, with 



