Coaching days and coaching ways . urn. - - ~ Racing the Mail. been artless creatures indeed, for they were fast asleepwhen the coach was upset, and woke up when it wasbeing restored to its equilibrium, and remarked, Whatis it ? Some gipsies who were chiefly instrumental inremoving the coach from its side, showed themselvesmore wide-awake ; for mistrusting the gratitude ofupset coachmen while with one set of hands theyreared the upset coach, with the other set of hands they 182 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS removed several baskets of game, which according tothe custom of the day were hanging
Coaching days and coaching ways . urn. - - ~ Racing the Mail. been artless creatures indeed, for they were fast asleepwhen the coach was upset, and woke up when it wasbeing restored to its equilibrium, and remarked, Whatis it ? Some gipsies who were chiefly instrumental inremoving the coach from its side, showed themselvesmore wide-awake ; for mistrusting the gratitude ofupset coachmen while with one set of hands theyreared the upset coach, with the other set of hands they 182 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS removed several baskets of game, which according tothe custom of the day were hanging underneath it. Andthe coachman did not discover till he got to Portsmouththat his generous assistants had thus earned theirreward ! And this brings me to the second of those threecrimes which, as I said in the beginning of this chapter,gives the Royal Road in my eyes so unenviable anotoriety. I do not purpose to treat the atrocity knownas The Murders by the Smugglers, at any greatlength, or with any detail, though a curious pamphletwh
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