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miles without the least attempt at jibbing. We then 

 took him out and returned to the Eoebuck. The 

 coach arriving in about half an hour, I put him in 

 off-wheel, and drove him to Benson, a distance of 

 twelve miles, our first stage, and no horse ever went 

 better or more quietly. 



' The next day I drove him back, and the report of 

 this singular feat having spread through the city, 

 all the stable fraternity of Oxford assembled to greet 

 my return, and to assure themselves of the identity 

 of the animal ; for it appeared that he had been tried 

 by many of Mr. Costar's men, who had all pro- 

 nounced him incurable, and he had been returned 

 accordingly, as the man from whom I bought him 

 had told me. I continued to drive him as long as 

 the coaeh lasted, and it fell to my lot a year or two 

 later to renew my acquaintance with him in another 

 team from the same establishment.' 



This is his account of the renewal of the acquaint- 

 ance, on which occasion there was nearly being a 

 serious accident, in no way, however, attributable to 

 the particular horse mentioned before : 



' My first journey to London was attended with 

 rather an inauspicious event. I did not know a yard 

 of the road for the first two stages before the day I 

 took possession of the box of the Lynn coach, but had 

 no difl&culty in finding my way, as, with the exception 



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