. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . a toast, my lads : Its the best o well-kept roads,With tight tits, and bright wits, and tidy level loads. When the old mans song, which was received with quite achorus of horn-sounding from the guards, was over, it was timeto resume the journey homewards. As they took their placesJack nodded to the old guard with the remark, Theyre toojolly to get killed, and Ill see the Highflyer isnt made a hearseof. When well stead
. All round sport : with fish, fur, & feather ; adventures on the turf and the road, in the hunting and cricket fields, yachting courses, links, and curling ponds . a toast, my lads : Its the best o well-kept roads,With tight tits, and bright wits, and tidy level loads. When the old mans song, which was received with quite achorus of horn-sounding from the guards, was over, it was timeto resume the journey homewards. As they took their placesJack nodded to the old guard with the remark, Theyre toojolly to get killed, and Ill see the Highflyer isnt made a hearseof. When well steadied down he went off at a spankingpace, and as soon as within sight of Carlisle walls he bent oifthe new road and down the old one which had been shut upfor years. Jack, cried the soberest of postboys, youre offthe road ; for any sake pull up ; but, with the remark from Jimthat Jack had driven the road for twenty years and ought toknow, he subsided. So down they went, some singing, andsome winding away at the horns, notwithstanding that a farmerwaved them back with a pitchfork. Giving them their headsthe old coachman literally raced them down a hill, round a. The Old Coaclis Last journey. 95 corner, and on to an old wooden bridge marked Unsafe forvehicles. A Crash ! A smash ! and all were in the brook, fromwhich old Splashbar was the first to scramble, muttering, Theycan make a hearse of her now if they like, Jim. Whether itwas on account of their jolHness, or of having served theirapprenticeship in youth to coach accidents or not, we cannotsay, but none of them were hurt, nor were the horses ; but theHighflyer was a complete wreck. All got home as best theycould ; and the old vehicle was left there, all but the wheels, tobe swept away by the autumn floods. This was the old coachslast journey.
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