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For instance, it is recorded with much circumstantiality that on circuit, accosting a junior who had lost his portmanteau from the back of a post-chaise, he said, with mock gravity, "Young gentlemen, henceforth imitate the elephant, the wisest of animals, who always carries his trunk before him;" and on equally good authority it is stated that when Polito, the keeper of the Exeter 'Change Menagerie, met with a similar accident and brought an action for damages against the proprietor of the coach from the hind-boot of which his property had disappeared, Erskine, speaking for the defence, told the jury that they would not be justified in giving a verdict favorable to the man, who, though he actually possessed an elephant, had neglected to imitate its prudent example and carry his trunk before him.
Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.
They all know our sportsman, and we feel a reflected credit when we see him chatting and laughing with them. "Now, sir, please," says the coachman. All the rest of the passengers are up; the guard is locking up the hind-boot. "A good run to you!" says the sportsman to the pinks, and is by the coachman's side in no time. "Let 'em go, Dick!"
"Anything for us, Bob?" says the burly guard, dropping down from behind, and slapping himself across the chest. "Young gen'lm'n, Rugby; three parcels, Leicester; hamper o' game, Rugby," answers hostler. "Tell young gent to look alive," says guard, opening the hind-boot and shooting in the parcels after examining them by the lamps. "Here; shove the portmanteau up a-top. I'll fasten him presently.
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