Excerpt from The Stage Coach, or the Road of Life, Vol. 3 of 3 Peter Bivin was one of the [ms-beem, qualification without which no one could be a successful candidate for admission to the chalked-off coachman's free and easy. But, although he was of the past, still, as from leaves that are scatter'd, an odour is flung more sweet when the flower is withered and dead, so there was something in Peter's re mains, which enhanced, perhaps, the attrac tions of his decline. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.