my tumbling off the coach i was nearly smothered by their falling asleep and completely me up they squeezed me so hard sometimes that i could not help crying out oh if you please � which they didn t like at all because it woke them opposite me was an elderly lady in a great fur cloak who looked in the dark more like a than a lady she was wrapped up to such a degree this lady had a basket with her and she hadn t known what to do with it for a long time until she found that on account of my legs being short it could go underneath me it cramped and hurt me so that it made me perfectly miserable but if i moved in the least and made a glass that was in the basket rattle against something else as it was sure to do she gave me the with her foot and said come don t you your bones are young enough i m sure at last the sun rose and then my companions seemed to sleep easier the difficulties under which they had all night and which had found utterance in the most terrific and are not to be conceived as the sun got higher then sleep became lighter and so they gradually one by one awoke i recollect being very much surprised by the everybody made then of not having been to sleep at all and by the uncommon indignation with which every one the charge i labor under the same kind of astonishment to this day having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess i cannot imagine why is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach what an amazing place london was to me when i saw it in the distance and how i believed all the adventures of all my favorite heroes to be constantly and re there and how i vaguely made it out op david in my own mind to be fuller of wonders and wickedness than all the cities of the earth i need not stop here to relate we approached it by degrees and got in due time to the inn in the district for which we were bound i forget whether it was the blue bull or the blue but i know it was the blue something and that its likeness was painted up on the back of the coach the guard s eye lighted on me as he was getting down and he said at the office door is there anybody here for a in the name of from to be left till called for nobody answered try if you please sir said i looking helplessly down is there anybody here for a in the name of from but to the name of to be left till called for said the guard come is there anybody no there was nobody i looked anxiously around but the made no impression on any of the if i except a man in with one eye who suggested that they had better put a brass collar round my neck and tie me up in the stable a ladder was brought and i got down after the lady who was like a not daring to stir until her basket was removed the coach was clear of passengers by that time the luggage was very soon cleared out the horses had been taken out before the luggage and now the coach itself was wheeled and backed off by some out of the way still nobody appeared to claim the dusty from more solitary than who had nobody to look at him and see that he was solitary i went into the office and by invitation of the clerk on duty passed behind the counter and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage here as i sat looking at the and books and the smell of stables ever since associated with that morning a procession of most tremendous considerations began to march through my mind supposing nobody should ever fetch me how long would they consent to keep me there would they keep me long enough to spend seven shillings should i sleep at night in one of those wooden with the other luggage and wash myself at the pump in the yard in the morning or should i be turned out every night and expected to come again to be left till called for when the office opened next day supposing there was no mistake in the case and mr had devised this plan to get rid of me what should i do if they allowed me to remain there until my seven shillings were spent i couldn t hope to remain there when i began to starve that would obviously be inconvenient and unpleasant to the customers besides on the blue whatever it was the risk of funeral expenses if i started off at once and tried to walk back home how could i ever find my way how could i ever hope to walk so far how could i make sure of any one but even if i got back if i found out the nearest proper authorities and offered myself to go for a soldier or a sailor i was such a little fellow that it was most likely they wouldn t take me in these thoughts and a hundred other such thoughts turned me burning hot and made me giddy with apprehension and dismay i was in the height of my fever the personal history and experience when a man entered and whispered to the clerk who presently me off the scale and pushed me over to mm as if i were weighed bought delivered and paid for as i went out of the office hand in hand with this new acquaintance i stole a 