Coaching days and coaching ways . thepublic-house (sign, the Bald-faced Stag) ? Why, he sawa coach lying on its side—the Manchester Umpire in fact—the coach of the too demonstrative Humpy. Andthings were pretty considerably mixed up with theManchester Umpire. The forepart of the coach wasbroken, the luggage was scattered all over the road, alsothe passengers, who, thus agreeably circumstanced, im-proved the shining hour by bewailing their bruises andcursing the conduct of Humpy. This was rather un-chivalrous of them, as it turned out, thus to rail againstthe unfortunate ; for Humpy was also on
Coaching days and coaching ways . thepublic-house (sign, the Bald-faced Stag) ? Why, he sawa coach lying on its side—the Manchester Umpire in fact—the coach of the too demonstrative Humpy. Andthings were pretty considerably mixed up with theManchester Umpire. The forepart of the coach wasbroken, the luggage was scattered all over the road, alsothe passengers, who, thus agreeably circumstanced, im-proved the shining hour by bewailing their bruises andcursing the conduct of Humpy. This was rather un-chivalrous of them, as it turned out, thus to rail againstthe unfortunate ; for Humpy was also on his back, per-fectly helpless, like a large black beetle, moaning andgroaning most hideously, and certainly more injured thananybody else. He had indeed, with a curiously misdi-rected ingenuity, upset the coach upon himself, andmaterially injured his hip-joint. From Humpy himselftherefore no explanation of how things had occurred wasnaturally forthcoming. But there were not wanting men THE HOLYHEAD ROAD 35* v ji , I : .
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