Date: 1857
Meanwhile, asking pardon for this double digression, which has been made while the guard-coachman is delivering his mail-bags — - while the landlady stands looking on in the sun, her hands folded a little below the waist — while a company of tall burly troops from the castle has passed by, "surrounded" by a very mean, mealy faced, uneasy-looking little subaltern — while the poor, epileptic idiot ofthe town, wallowing and grinning in the road, and snorting out supplications for a halfpenny, has tottered away in possession of the coin : — meanwhile, fresh horses are brought out, and the small boy who acts behind the coach, makes an unequal and disagreeable tootooing on a horn kept to warn sleepy carmen, and celebrate triumphal entries into and exits from cities.  As the mist clears up, the country shows round about wild but friendly; at one place we passed a village, where a crowd of well-dressed people were collected at an auction of farm-furniture, and many more figures might be seen coming over the fields and issuing from the mist : the owner of the carts and machines is going to emigrate  316 COACH-BOX SKETCHES.