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Of songs his own special favorites, I remember, were a long ballad in which a faithful soldier is informed on his return to his native village that his own true love "lives with her own granny dear," which he, his mind running in military grooves, takes for "grenadier," with temporarily distressing results though all comes right at last and a lyrical description of an upset of his coach, the only one he ever had, written by a gifted hostler.
And Bill Miner, no longer Bill the tramp, found himself doing honest work, as a locomotive wiper and assistant hostler, in a round house, at a salary of one dollar and twenty-nine cents per day. Certainly Rod Blake's influence was being felt on the New York and Western railroad.
The major had to confess that he had been completely taken in. "That infernal rascal!" said he; "I wish I could catch him here again." "You ain't very likely to," remarked Jake, the hostler, dryly. "Why so? Do you know any thing about him? Did you ever see him before?" "Ever see him! why, he came from the same place that I did." "Where's that?" "Meredith Bridge."
He began his career by filling a three months' engagement as a livery horse, but after he had run away a dozen times, wrecked several carriages, and disabled a hostler, he was sold for half his purchase price. Then did he enter upon his wanderings in real earnest. He pulled street-cars, delivery wagons, drays and ash-carts.
"The old party don't give you a very good send off," said the boss hostler reflectively to Calico, "but I reckon you'll get used to Ajax and the music-chariot before the season's over. Leastways, you're bound to be an ornament to the grand entry." Calico's life with the Grand Occidental began abruptly and vigorously. The driver of the band-wagon knew his business.
Getz was head hostler at every funeral of the district, being detailed to assist and superintend the work of the other half dozen men employed to take charge of the "teams" that belonged to the funeral guests, who came in families, companies, and crowds.
Here the party breaks up, all going now different ways; and Tom orders out a chaise and pair as grand as a lord, though he has scarcely five shillings left in his pocket, and more than twenty miles to get home. "Where to, sir?" "Red Lion, Farringdon," says Tom, giving hostler a shilling. "All right, sir. Red Lion, Jem," to the postboy; and Tom rattles away towards home.
After dinner, which he scarcely touched, he wandered out it was his habit to do so, as he told the hostler, who was also the night-chamberlain and did not return till long after midnight. He observed, as he gave the man half a crown for sitting up for him to so late an hour, that the moon looked very fine upon the sea.
He was induced to this by the report of the hostler, who said that the horse which Mr Maclachlan had hired from Worcester would be much more pleased with returning to his friends there than to prosecute a long journey; for that the said horse was rather a two-legged than a four-legged animal.
And scarcely have you paid the ex- postilion before his successor is mounted; the hostler is standing ready with the steps in his hands to receive his invariable sixpence; the door is closed; the representative waiter bows his acknowledgment for the house, and you are off at a pace never less than ten miles an hour; the total detention at each stage not averaging above four minutes.
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