Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-06-22
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COUSIN LEFTY

who surrounded the coach which run every
day between Carlisle and Whitehaven.
Yes, ma am; just going to start said the
coachman. The economy Of the proprietors
did not afford guard.
I'm afraid you've no room for me- OBJ
served the lady, looking at the pyramid OF
luggage and the crowd of passengers already
seated.
Plenty of room, ma am, inside we'll take
care Of your luggage, ma am > and her two
portmanteaus were slowed away in those mys-
FERROUS little corner cupboard-like places yclept
the front and back boot. But her half-dozen
bandboxes, those ladies' companions, required
The mildest treatment.
What are we to do with the bandboxes =
shouted the ostler, as they all came tumbing
down from the roof on the first movement of
the coach.
man, checking his fine start. Why DOM
you tie em on! Get a bit of twine, and sling
'em over the sides
Are my bandboxes safe = anxiously in
quired the proprietrix of those receptacles of
caps and bonnets, popping out her head. The
now tightly-tied articles answered for them
selves by bobbing and dangling over her up
turned vision.
I'm afraid ma am, observed the remarka-
! bly, fat gentleman who sat next to her, if
i there's an upset, your bandboxes will have
,onbad chance
Is there any danger, then, sir, Of the coach
u3psettingp
1' shouldn't have given you the corner, and
sufpcated myself in this middle seat there
were six inside if hadn't thought so,' said
the gallant fat man. I'm an old traveller,
ma am, and know which is the safest place
Dear me, its very alarming ? said a prim,
thin old maid, who guarded him on the right
Coachman, IS there any danger!'
'Coachnan!' said wizzened, cross-Iook-
ing little attorney, occupying third corner
of the interior, you've already your number
twelve out, six in, with an unlimited guam
tity of luggage. | shall lay an information.
In truth, the coach was most alarmingly
tOp-heavy and the four smoking horses had
some difficulty in pulling it up the steep Hill
which they were ascending.
If she backs, said the remarkably fat gen.
tleman, as il ne delighted in frightening The
ladies', it's all over with US.
oh = exclaimed an affected young miss in
the fourth corner, strangely reversing her little
knowledge of travelling, why don't they lock
the wheels! Coachman, put the drag on!'
The coach, however, arrived safely at the
top of the hill.
Look at your wheel said foot passen-
ger, as he walked on his road with bundle
over his shoulder The careless driver took
no heed.
Wilt thou let me speak to the coachman .
asked a mely-looking Quakeress-the fat
gentleman's uis a uis-stretching her head out
of the window Coachman, thou shalt drive
me no farther; thou must set me down.
'I'lI set you down, ma am said the coach
man. Iashing his horses into gallop down the
hill.
The coach gave lurch and righted itself
NOlug Sdlu tuO Adb BCutiOuloh ohOShOl1
and again recovered its Going =
a third Gonel' The wheel came off, and
over went the coach, with its fearful load, into
the ditch.
What scene then presented itself! One
gentleman was thrown off the roof and seated
mot very comfortably-on the top of quick
set hedge. A young infant had been jerked
out of its mothers arms, and lay unhurt and
accomplishing high up in the ditch But even
in this distressing disaster, where, fortunately,
there seemed to be more fractured bonnets
than bones, the ludicrous seemed to pre-
vail, BY the fat gentleman making two or three
ahortive attempts to squeeze himself out at the
window-the door, as usual on all such occa-
wapns, being difficult and almost impossible to
n. The ladies and the little attorney, all
Scg of moderate dimensions, were easily ex-
weh'ted but the man of flesh, now proper
!" lnished for his selfshness, was left last.
Sr;,hhad forced himself so far through the win
lrl6v, that he could 60 no farther-thus unable
to advance or recede, when the door was at
> length opened, never did mortal cut so ludi-
crous figure The difficulty not bit OBJ
waited, there he was moving diagonally with
the door, wedged into the window like huge
thread stuck fast into a small-eyed needle, or
tied in the middle like golden fleece. The
coachman, who knew him well for one of the
stingiest travellers on the road, took his own
time in extricating him, consoling him mean
while with the pleasing intelligence that his
most particular packages were completely
smashed The fat traveller, who generally
laughed at other people misfortunes, had now
little sympathy extended to him, as he launch
ed forth volIey Of invectives against the
coachman, heightened, perhaps, by the smart
twinges Of broken rib. The ladies had es-
capped unhurt, with the exception of the owner
of the bandboxes, whose shoulder was severely
hurt fortunately surgeon, who happened to
have been on the roof, was there to render as
sistance. To add to the discomfort Of the up
set, the rain began to pour; and the only al
tentative was for all the passengers to walk to
cottage some hundred yards of, and wait
until cha;ees ware sent fOI from the next stage.