"Tipp," says his pleasant biographer, "never mounted the box of a stage-coach in his life; or leaned against the rails of a balcony; or walked upon the ridge of a parapet; or looked down a precipice; or let off a gun."

We travelled with one of those troublesome fellow-passengers in a stage-coach that is called a well-informed man.

In a stage-coach, where late I chanc'd to be, 429.

" David was now compelled to leave the place, for Captain Truck, who perceived that the whole party was getting together again, in consequence of the halt, felt the propriety of dismissing his visiter, of whom, his master, and Dowse, he retained just as much recollection as one retains of a common stage-coach companion after twenty years.

On a certain day he stood in the market square to see their first stage-coach put together.

"Marjorie told me all about the people in the stage-coach.

I was riding on an English stage-coach when we passed a handsome marble column (as I remember it) of considerable size and pretensions.

III.Tartarin's Adventures in the Desert The lion-hunter was keenly disappointed, after a very long journey in the stage-coach, to be told that there was not a lion left in all Algeria, though a few panthers might still be found worth shooting.

It must be remembered that this was still the era of the stage-coach and the diligence, and that it took many days to accomplish a journey which is now made in almost the same number of hours.

I can scarcely give you any idea of its construction; it is so unlike in many respects to our stage-coach.

When a slave, he had several times been importuned by fellow servants to join them in the attempt to escape from bondage, but he had never wanted his freedom badly enough to walk a thousand miles for it; if he could have gone to Canada by stage-coach, or by rail, or on horseback, with stops for regular meals, he would probably have undertaken the trip.

When he departed, the Colonel drove him over to Trenton to take the stage-coach.

If he were, to recur to a case which we have before put, a member of a stage-coach company, he would, in that capacity, remember that "a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast."

I am inclined to believe, that a packet is far superior to a stage-coach as a means of making men open out to each other!

He said he could not travel in a stage-coach, or go into a party, or attend a religious meeting, without being attacked.

To preserve however the chariness of their reputation, they insisted upon conducting me with them for a few miles on the outside of a stage-coach.

"I was riding once, on the top of a stage-coach," said a Christian gentleman, "when the driver by my side began to swear in a dreadful manner.

But Forester remonstrated strongly against leaving the poor sailor in such a condition, and in such a place; and finally it was agreed that the farmer should go down the road and see to him, so as to allow the stage-coach with the passengers to go on.

It was on the order of stage-coach.

Apparently, there had been no demand for such entertainment by any traveller since the stage-coach ceased to run through the village.

Having notified to my good Friend Sir ROGER that I should set out for London the next Day, his Horses were ready at the appointed Hour in the Evening; and attended by one of his Grooms, I arrived at the County-Town at twilight, in order to be ready for the Stage-Coach the Day following.

But I had the Fate of your Quaker, in meeting with a rude Fellow in a Stage-Coach, who entertained two or three Women of us (for there was no Man besides himself) with Language as indecent as was ever heard upon the Water.

The description in No. 84, of the incidents of a stage-coach journey, so often imitated by succeeding writers, but, perhaps, never surpassed, will exemplify the above remark.

A few days after the stage-coach incident Mountain Charley drew up beside Cass on the Blazing Star turnpike, and handed him a small packet.

For example: One tremendously hot day, during the old stage-coach system, I was going down to Portobello, when the coachman drew up to take in a gentleman who had hailed him on the road.