So I seated myself on the hamperlike Patience on the proverbial monumentand beheld the coachman depart homewards, with a sympathetic hat-touching salute, leaving me with a gloomy conviction of coming misfortune.

They tell me good coachman not mind get wet every day, will be much ashamed if go inside; that I not understand.

A well-appointed victoria was waiting below with a superb-looking coachman motionless on the box-seat.

The rest of the procession turned in at the gates of the palace, but rather to the children's disappointment, the Queen gave their coachman orders to drive on.

But Misther Todd discharged 'im the same avenin', widout a characther, bad 'cess to 'im, an' we 've had no coachman sence at all, at all.