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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[51]
No
one
who
has
read
Roderick
Random
can
forget
the
novelist's
description
of
his
hero's
ride
from
Scotland
to
London.
As
it
is
generally
believed
to
be
a
veritable
account
of
a
journey
which
Smollett
himself
made
about
the
middle
of
the
last
century,
the
reader
may
be
of
opinion
that
the
improvement
here
spoken
of
was
not
so
great
as
it
might
have
been.
Roderick,
however,
travelled
in
the
"stage-waggon"
of
the
period.
He
and
his
faithful
friend
Strap
having
observed
one
of
these
waggons
a
quarter
of
a
mile
before
them,
speedily
overtook
it,
and,
ascending
by
means
of
the
usual
ladder,
"tumbled
into
the
straw
under
the
darkness
of
the
tilt,"
amidst
four
passengers,
two
gentlemen
and
two
ladies.
When
they
arrived
at
the
first
inn
Captain
Weazel
desired
a
room
for
himself
and
his
lady,
"with
a
separate
supper;"
but
the
impartial
innkeeper
replied
he
"had
prepared
victuals
for
the
passengers
in
the
waggon,
without
respect
of
persons."
Strap
walked
by
the
side
of
the
waggon,
changing
places
with
his
master
when
Roderick
was
disposed
to
walk.
The
mistakes,
the
quarrels,
and
the
mirth
of
the
passengers,
are
told
by
the
novelist
with
a
vivacity
and
humour
which
would
have
been
admirable
but
for
their
coarseness.
After
five
days'
rumbling
in
the
straw,
the
passengers
get
quite
reconciled
to
each
other;
"nothing
remarkable
happened
during
the
remaining
part
of
our
journey,
which
continued
six
or
seven
days
longer."
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