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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men

Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men

Edwards, Eliezer

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1548305235
ISBN13: 9781548305239
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 4 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
It is a fine autumnal morning in the year 1837. I am sitting on the box seat of a stage coach, in the yard of the Bull-and-Mouth, St. Martin's-le-Grand, in the City of London. The splendid gray horses seem anxious to be off, but their heads are held by careful grooms. The metal fittings of the harness glitter in the early sunlight. Jew pedlar-boys offer me razors and penknives at prices unheard of in the shops. Porters bring carpet-bags and strange-looking packages of all sizes, and, to my great inconvenience, keep lifting up the foot-board, to deposit them in the front boot. A solemn-looking man, whose nose is preternaturally red, holds carefully a silver-mounted whip. Passengers arrive, and climb to the roof of the coach, before and behind, until we are full outside. Then the guard comes with a list, carefully checks off all our names, and retires to the booking office, from which a minute later he returns. He is this time accompanied by the coachman, who is a handsome, roguish-looking man. He wears a white hat, his boots are brilliantly polished, his drab great-coat is faultlessly clean, and the dark blue neckerchief is daintily tied. His whiskers are carefully brushed forward and curled, the flower in the button-hole is as fresh as if that instant plucked, and he has a look as if he were well fed, and in all other respects well cared for.

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