Away went Gilpin, and away Went postboy at his heels, The postboy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.
Illustration] Six gentlemen upon the road, Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scampering in the rear.
This so delighted the lady traveler that she paid the postboy lavishly and said to Gilbert: "We shall have a feast at the next posting house.
The postboy made a superhuman effort and managed to keep his horses from trampling on the boy, though one of the leaders gave him a kick.
The postboy obeyed the lady, who had already got in the berlin, as were called such carriages.
It was the post carriage of Gilbert's guardian angel, which the postboy was enchanted to stop, on seeing the man wave him to do so, for he knew the nags would never reach the post house.
Away went Gilpin, and away Went postboy at his heels, The postboy's horse right glad to miss The rumbling of the wheels.
We must persuade our ostler and postboy to find us another--let us see to it forthwith!
And here I found Mr. Shrig leaning upon his knotted stick and lost in contemplation of a dusty chaise beneath which lay a perspiring and profane postboy busied with divers tools upon the front axle.
Reaching the yard behind the inn we perceived an ostler and a postboy who cherished a trembling horse between them, talking together in hushed but sullen tones.
Illustration] Six gentlemen upon the road, Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry.
I gave him ten francs for himself; he commended us to the fresh postboy and we set off at top speed.
Our postillion here got anotherpostboy to take up the running, and, in order that we might make even better speed, they put in three horses this time instead of two.
The postboy held him under the arms and I by the legs.
The postboy thought it would be best to carry the wounded man to the village of Vallars, which was only half-a-league distant.
At this very moment the postboy returned with a horse.
And Charles Marston, calling him a puppy in his own mind, went round to the other side, got in, and ordered the postboy to drive on.
He was soon overtaken by his young companion, and as they walked on together the postboy overtook and passed them.
The moment he arrived, Mr. Winkworth put him in the dickey of the vehicle, told the postboy where to drive, and got into the inside himself.
It was a bright morning when he set out again for Milford, and all looked gay and hopeful; but fatigue and impatience had done much to diminish confidence, and the way seemed interminably long, the postboy preternaturally slow.
The postboy had lost his way, and could offer no suggestions.
On the day of the accident to Charles Hazlewood, Brown had taken the postboy with him to show him the skating and curling on the pond in the neighbourhood of which the supposed attack had taken place.
I have only an opportunity for a short letter this time, because the postboy has arrived unexpectedly, and won't wait.
Six gentlemen upon the road, Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry.
I'm the postboy at the Red Lion; I want to see the servant with the brown carriage; I have found this purse!
The King himself drove off in such a hurry that the postboy fell off his horse on leaving the town.
A somewhat similar attack upon a postboy was made in Yorkshire in the year 1798, when the rider's life was threatened by a highwayman single-handed, and the mails stolen from him.
The ladies said the postboy had left them to go to St Albans to get fresh cattle, and had been gone two hours.
She asked John his name; and told the postboy he was not worth his salt.
She was followed by Mr. and Mrs. Low, as soon as the postboy could let down the steps.
At the station of Sveen, where we changed horse and postboy again, it was already evening.
There was a brisk little mouse-coloured pony in the shafts; and it took but a moment to strap our leather portmanteau on the board at the back, perch the postboy on top of it, and set out for our first experience of a Norwegian driving-tour.
The postboy touched his hat in acquiescence with this reasonable proposition; he brought back my friend in safety, at all events, and, I dare say, in a very happy state of mind.
It so happened that some time after, Lord Rokeby had again to go to Greenwich, and when his carriage and pair of posters came to the door, he saw in the saddle the same postboy who had brought him to grief.
We soon found it was only a subject for laughter; we had but one resource, which was to send the postboyback to Salisbury for another coach, and to sit quietly in the broken one until he returned.
The postboy clanked his whip, the chaise rattled off.
I will first call your attention to the evidence of Myatt, the postboy at the Talbot Arms.
JAMES MYATT, examined by Mr. JAMES: In November last I was postboy at the Talbot Arms at Rugeley.
In this state of mind Palmer met the postboywho was ready to drive Mr. Stevens to Stafford.
The cit will have enough in his pocket-book to make it worth while to ease him of it; and the postboy will stop when he's ordered to do so.
The government-courier and myself tackled them in a moment: we were the only persons in the mail, and the postboy was so frightened that he got off his seat and hid himself under one of the horses.
A postboy was shot by an Irish gentleman on the road near Stone, in Staffordshire, who died in two days, for which the gentleman was imprisoned.
