. Jackanapes. with illus. by Randolph Caldecott. W^^i) Ail. always went up the village as far as the George andDragon, for air and exercise, when the London Mail*came in. * The Mail Coach it was that distributed over the face of the land, like the openingof apocalyptic vials, the heart-shaking news of Trafalgar, of Salamanca, of Vittoria, olWaterloo. . The grandest chapter of our experience, within-the whole Mail Coacbservice, was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of VictoryFive years of life it was worth paying down for the privilege of aji outside place. De Quinc
. Jackanapes. with illus. by Randolph Caldecott. W^^i) Ail. always went up the village as far as the George andDragon, for air and exercise, when the London Mail*came in. * The Mail Coach it was that distributed over the face of the land, like the openingof apocalyptic vials, the heart-shaking news of Trafalgar, of Salamanca, of Vittoria, olWaterloo. . The grandest chapter of our experience, within-the whole Mail Coacbservice, was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of VictoryFive years of life it was worth paying down for the privilege of aji outside place. De Quincsv. IT WAS A FAMOUS VICTORY. 13 One day (it was a day in the following June) it came inearlier than usual, and the young lady was not there tomeet it. But a crowd soon gathered round the George andDragon, gaping to see the Mail Coach dressed with flowersand oak-leaves, and the guard wearing a laurel-wreath overand above his royal livery. The ribbons that decked thehorses were stained and flecked with the warmth and foamof the pace at which they had co
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