EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 3 



have not yet found their way up here, though 

 they do run through the valley. It was not 

 far from here that one of them nearly slew a 

 royal Duke. 



Apropos of this untoward incident, I was 

 travelling the other day in a crowded railway 

 carriage down the Golden Valley my friend 

 found that his shoulder was being made the 

 pillow for a jolly young farmer " half seas 

 over" and a little more. On being roused 

 up, he cried out, as if continuing part of his 

 dream, " I say, it was the Duke's fault ; that's 

 my opinion, an' I dunna care who knows it. 

 The accident happened close to my house. 

 I say the motor was goin' forty miles an 

 hour, an' I can prove it ; that's my opinion. 

 Perhaps some other member of the present 

 company will be good enough to contradict 

 me or to favour us with his opinion ? " 



" How can you prove it ? " said one. 

 " Prove it ! " says he ; " this way. The Duke 

 started from (so-and-so) at a certain hour, 

 and he was here at a certain hour (naming 

 it). The distance is (so-and-so) ; that means 

 twenty-five miles an hour right on without let 

 or hindrance. In course there must ha' been 



