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their destination, and often required by thoughtless pas- 

 sengers to stop with a heavy load in the middle of a hill, 

 to a few inches, so that their feet may not be damped by 

 a few yards' walking to the exact spot they wish to ar- 

 rive at. 



In a dilemma of this nature a fast and reckless driver, 

 with his flourishing whip, harassing hands, and selfish 

 disposition, would speedily find himself before his bet- 

 ters, to answer for the cracking of some poor wight's 

 limbs, or reducing a two-hundr j ..l guinea enuipage into 

 lucifer-match wood- 



