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But on arriving, his successor, a man named Johnson Richardson, was unable or indisposed to go on with the mail . It happened that Division Superintendent W. C. Marley was at Bucklands when Haslam arrived, and, since Richardson would not go on duty, Marley offered "Pony Bob" fifty dollars bonus if he would take up the route.
We were all tired and hungry the general no less so than his staff and when an invitation was sent to us by a gentleman near Bucklands, to come and sup with him, we accepted it with fervor, and hastened toward the friendly mansion. A delightful reception awaited us. The house was full of young ladies, passionately devoted to "rebels," and we were greeted with an enthusiasm which passed all bounds.
Of course they implored Haslam to remain with them and not risk his life venturing away with the mail. But the mail must go; and the schedule, hard as it was, must be maintained. "Bob" had no conception of fear, and so he galloped away, after an hour's rest. And back into Bucklands he came unharmed, after having suffered only three and a half hours of delay.
Haslam therefore fed the horse he was riding, and after a short rest started for Bucklands , the next station which was fifteen miles down the river. He had already ridden seventy-five miles and was due to lay off at the latter place.
The tribe was a comparatively large one, and as Miss Greeby learned later consisted of Lees, Loves, Bucklands, Hernes, and others, all mixed up together in one gypsy stew. The assemblage embraced many clans, and not only were there pure gypsies, but even many diddikai, or half-bloods, to be seen.
"My name is Ursula, brother, and not Lucretia: Lucretia is not of our family, but one of the Bucklands; she travels about Oxfordshire; yet I am as good as she any day." "Lucretia; how odd! Where could she have got that name?
She is merely conspicuous, and the moral break-down in England, that one hears of in the baited breath of the continent, is an illusion. The elevator girl at Bucklands Hotel in London was a bright, black-eyed, good looking woman in her late twenties.
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