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PART I
CHAPTER IV
THE STAGE COACH
Оглавление"Let the steam-pot hiss till it's hot,
Give me the speed of the Tantivy trot."
Coaching song by R. E. E. Warburton, Esq.
"Now, sir, time to get up, if you please. Tally-ho252 coach for Leicester'll be round in half an hour, and don't wait for nobody." So spake the Boots253 of the Peacock Inn, Islington,254 at half-past two o'clock on the morning of a day in the early part of November, 183-, giving Tom at the same time a shake by the shoulder, and then putting down a candle and carrying off his shoes to clean.
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Tally-ho: the cry with which huntsmen urge on their hounds; here, a name given to a fast coach.
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Boots: a servant in an inn who blacks boots, etc.
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Islington: a northern suburb of London.
