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coach was discontinued, and the traffic left entirely to us. 

 Even then we loaded very indifferently. Finding that 

 what little Ave did carry interfered with the " Oxford 

 Defiance," the pet drag of my would-be cannibal friend, 

 he persuaded my London employer to drop it, which he 

 suddenly did a week or two after Christmas, leaving me 

 to ruminate on the great error I had committed in 

 leaving a certainty for an uncertainty, and to contem- 

 plate the little chance I had of future employment. 



