dark brown colour,
and for which I paid no less than 12s. 6d. a peace, and with our
pockets pretty well stuffed full of sanwiches, and jest a nice little
flarsk of summut nice, never mind what, off we sets for the City at
nine a clock, hay hem, and at nine forty by the church clock off
we starts on our perrylus journey, reddy, as the Poet says, to dash
through thick and thin.

As it appened it was fortunet as we was so prepared, for, strange
to say, we hadn't got so werry far from Lundon Bridge, when, by sum
mistake of the Clark of the whether, as our jolly Coachman told us,
it began for to rain, but he said as how as he knowd as much about the
Darby wether as most men, as he'd driven there about twenty times in
the larst duzzen years, and what we was a having was ony a parsing
shower. How it was I coudnt quite undustand, for whether we druv
fast or whether we druv slow, doose a bit coud we get away from that
parsing shower. However, tho' we did both get jolly wet, we had sum
capital fun, for we seed no less than too coaches and four upset in
the road, and to see the poor passengers all a standing in the mud,
which it was about amost up to their nees, and a wundering what time
they shood get to the Darby, was more than enuff to console us, and we
all larfed artily and left 'em. Such is human Natur!

Before we both got quite wet through, I got my best beloved a seat
inside, and, strange to say, although she was werry much scrowged, she
axshally prefurrd it to setting out in the rain along of me. It may
have bin thorts of her new Bonnet. Such agane is human Natur! Luckily,
jest after she left me, one of our wheels sunk down in a werry deep
ole, and all on us on my side had to get down into the fearful mud,
and wait till our gallant steeds pulled it out again, and, unluckily,
the one as pulled hardest, let his foot slip, and sent a reglar shower
of whity-brown mud all over me from top to toe, or rayther, from At
to Boots, and I was in that orful state that all our set, Coachman
and all, acshally roared with larfter. Such again, I fears, is human
Nature!

When we got to the Darby, in course our fust thort was lunch, but
afore I coud get beyond laying the cloth, there came such a reglar
buster of an ail storm that we was all drove hunder the homnibus for
shelter, and when it leaved off, and I went on the roof, the table
cloth was about three inches thick with round ale stones! Ah, that was
a difficult lunch that was, and