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"Let the steam-pot hiss till it's hot; / Give me the speed of the Tantivy trot. " / "Coaching Song," by R. E. E. Warburton, Esq.
"Now, sir, time to get up, if you please. Tally-ho coach for Leicester'll be round in half an hour, and don't wait for nobody. " So spake the boots of the Peacock Inn Islington, at half-past two o'clock on the morning of a day in the early part of November 183‒, giving Tom at the same time a shake by the shoulder, and then putting down a candle; and carrying off his shoes to clean.