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had passed the narrow turning in the road. Yoho ! 

 by churches dropped down by themselves in quiet 

 nooks, with rustic burial-grounds about them, where the 

 graves are green, and daisies sleep — for it is evening 

 — on the bosoms of the dead. 



"Yoho! among the gathering shades, making of 

 no account the deep reflections of the trees, but 

 scampering on through light and darkness all the same, 

 as if the light of London fifty miles away were quite 

 enough to travel by, and some to spare. 



" Awav with fresh horses from the ' Bald-faced Stasf,' 

 where topers congregate about the door admiring ; and 

 the last team, with traces hanging loose, go roaming off 

 towards the pond, until observed and shouted after by 

 a dozen throats, while volunteering boys pursue them. 

 Now, with a clattering of hoofs and striking out of fiery 

 sparks, across the old stone bridge, and down again 

 into the shadowy road, and through the open gate, and 

 far away into the wold ! 



" Yoho ! See the bright moon ! High up before 

 we know it ! 



" Yoho ! why, now we travel like the moon herself! 

 Hiding this minute in a grove of trees, next minute in 

 a patch of vapour ; emerging now upon our broad 

 clear course, withdrawing now, but always dashing on, 

 our journey is a counterpart of hers. Yoho ! a match 

 against the moon ! The beauty of the night is hardly 

 felt, when day comes leaping up. Yoho ! two stages, 

 and the country roads are almost changed to one 

 continuous street. Yoho ! past market-gardens, rows 

 of houses, villas, crescents, terraces, and squares ; past 

 waggons, coaches, carts ; past early workmen, late 

 stragglers, drunken men, and sober carriers of loads ; 

 past brick and mortar in its every shape ; and in 



