A COACH WITHOUT A COACHMAN. 



the anecdotes I call to mind, I do so, it must be 

 remembered, at second-hand, and can do but scant 

 justice to their merits. Such as they are, I give 

 them. 



' It rained very hard,' said an eye-witness, ' when 

 the "Tally-Ho" coach pulled up at the inn of the 

 last stage for changing horses before reaching Exeter. 

 Immediately after starting, John Hex, the coachman, 

 crept into the front boot of the coach, and in this 

 position drove the horses through Kenn and Alphing- 

 ton, causing quite a consternation amongst the inhabi- 

 tants, who thought the horses had run away without 

 a coachman. Tommy Waters, the guard, fancying 

 something was unusual, peeped over the top of the 

 luggage on the roof, and seeing the horses going at a 

 pace faster than common, and no driver, quietly got 

 off behind, and in so doing broke his leg. Just 

 before entering the city, Hex stealthily emerged from 

 his concealment, and took his seat on the box and 

 drove up to the New London Inn in his usual style. 

 Shortly after, a lot of people came driving and riding 

 up to learn the fate of the coach and horses, which 

 they vowed had no driver as it passed through several 

 villages ; whilst Hex for his part as stoutly asserted 

 that he had never left the coach, and had driven all 

 the way without a passenger, except two in the inside, 

 who were unaware of the act of the sportive coach- 

 man.' 



It was said, although Mr. Farrance could never be 



