The coaching era . ly bound to the mansionsof relations or friends, to eat the Christmas was loaded also with hampers of game, and basketsand boxes of delicacies; and hares hung dangling theirlong ears about the coachmans box, presents fromdistant friends for the impending feast. I had threefine, rosy-cheeked schoolboys for my fellow passengers,inside, full of the buxom health and manly spiritwhich I have observed in the children of this were returning home for the holidays in fineglee, and promising themselves a world of was delightful to hear the gigantic
The coaching era . ly bound to the mansionsof relations or friends, to eat the Christmas was loaded also with hampers of game, and basketsand boxes of delicacies; and hares hung dangling theirlong ears about the coachmans box, presents fromdistant friends for the impending feast. I had threefine, rosy-cheeked schoolboys for my fellow passengers,inside, full of the buxom health and manly spiritwhich I have observed in the children of this were returning home for the holidays in fineglee, and promising themselves a world of was delightful to hear the gigantic plans ofthe little rogues, and the impracticable feats theywere to perform during their six weeks emancipa-tion from the abhorred thraldom of book, birch, andpedagogue. They were full of anticipations of themeeting with the family and household, down to thevery cat and dog; and of the joy they were to give theirlittle sisters by the presents with which their pocketswere crammed; but the meeting to which they seemed. h^ h s X u ^ *. («> a ?^ OS ^ o ^5 -$• CQ •*si 5t ^ -5; < •^ C «2 ^•t a •& K H <5 TWO FOREIGNERS ON COACHING 235 to look forward with the greatest impatience was withBantam, which I found to be a pony, and according totheir talk, possessed of more virtues than any steedsince the days of Bucephalus. How he could trot! howhe could run! and then such leaps as he would take—there was not a hedge in the whole country that hecould not clear. They were under the particular guardianship ofthe coachman, to whom, whenever an opportunitypresented, they addressed a host of questions, and pro-nounced him one of the best fellows in the , I could not but notice the more than ordinaryair of bustle and importance of the coachman, who worehis hat a little on one side, and had a large bunch ofChristmas greens stuck in the buttonhole of his is always a personage full of mighty care and business,but he is particularly so during this season, hav
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