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 but, before he could peak it out, the monter took his head from under his arm, and hurled it at John: it truck him right on the forehead, and the blow was o evere that he tumbled headlong from the box over the fore-wheel, and at the ame intant the potilion was tretched in the dut by a evere troke with a club; while the phantom uttered thee words from the hollow of his breat, in a olemn tone: ‘Take that from Number-Nip, the warder of the march.’ Upon this the apparition mounting the addle, began to lah on the hores up hill and down, over tock and tone—o that between the rattling of the wheels and the norting of the hores the ladies’ creams were entirely drowned.

In a moment the company was enlarged by the addition of another peron; a man on horeback paed very coolly beide the driver, without eeming to take the mallet notice of his wanting an head; and then he rode on before the coach, as if he had Rh