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run all tne next day, out some ot the passengers had.Wayside Editorials, No. 1.THE STAGE COACII.Once the stage coach was regarded as decidedly a “ grand institution/’ This was before steamboats were so common, and while as yet railroads were not. Then the stage coach was “an affair ” indeed. The driver was a man of note, and his “ team ” quite an object of attraction. Men, women and children ran to the door to see him as he passed, and the sound of his horn and the crack of his whip not only “ awoke the slumbering echoes,” but also excited the admiration of wondering crowds. Then the driver felt his importance ; he knew that he was more than an ordinary object of attention, and well did he seek to sustain his reputation by making all the display he could. Sit with him in the box— a privilege, by the by, he would not grant to everybody—and he would descant lengthily, if not learnedly, upon the qualities and merits of his different horses ; inform you which were the stronger and which the truer; how much they could unitedly draw ; how perfectly ho could managt them ; how well they understood his
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St Louis Christian Advocate
St Louis, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 05, 1857
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