If you have been amongst the thimble-riggers you must be tolerably well cleared out.

Where are you going ?--to -- -?
I think I have seen you there.

The fare is sixteen shillings.

Come, tip us the blunt; them that has no money can't ride on my mail." Sixteen shillings was a large sum, and to pay it would make a considerable inroad on my slender finances; I thought, at first, that I would say I did not want to go so far; but then the fellow would ask at once where I wanted to go, and I was ashamed to acknowledge my utter ignorance of the road.

I determined, therefore, to pay the fare, with a tacit determination not to mount a coach in future without knowing whither I was going.