=171=: 2. =Spring anything to my mind.= The metaphors in this and the following lines are drawn from the chase. To "spring" is to rouse game from cover; to "put up" has much the same meaning. =171=: 6. =Foil the scent.= When a variety of game is started, and their trails cross, the dogs become confused and cannot follow any one. =171=: 14. =My love of solitude, taciturnity.= See paper I of this volume. =171=: 28. =White Witch.= Called "white" because doing good; most witches were believed to practise a black art. =172=: 10. =Some discarded Whig.= Discarded, or he would not have been staying in the country among Tories. =173=: 19. =Stories of a cock and a bull.= Any idle or absurd story. The phrase in this form or in the other now more common, "a cock-and-bull story," has been common in English for nearly three hundred years; but its origin is not known. =173=: 25. =Make every mother's son of us Commonwealth's men.= Sir Andrew Freeport, it will be remembered, was a pronounced Whig, and the Whigs were charged with having inherited the doctrines and traditions of the Commonwealth. XXV. THE JOURNEY TO LONDON =Motto.= "We call that man impertinent who does not see what the occasion demands, or talks too much, or makes a display of himself, or does not have regard for the company he is in."--Cicero, _De Oratore_, ii. 4. =174=: 5. =Ready for the stage-coach.= By 1710 coaches ran regularly between London and most larger towns in England. The best were called "flying-coaches," were drawn by six horses, and sometimes made eighty miles a day. They did not run at night. The fare was about three pence the mile. =174=: 7. =The chamberlain= was the chief servant of an inn. =174=: 9. =Mrs. Betty Arable.= The title _Mrs_. was applied to unmarried ladies, the term _Miss_ being reserved for young girls and for people who misbehaved themselves. =174=: 13. =Ephraim, the Quaker.= The name was frequently applied to Quakers, because Ephraim "turned his back in battle." See _Psalm_ lxxviii. =177=: 26. =The right we had of taking place.= Roads were very narrow, and two coaches meeting often found it difficult to pass; hence disputes of the coachmen as to the right of way. XXVI. SIR ROGER AND SIR ANDREW IN ARGUMENT =Motto.= "I recall the argument, and remember that Thyrsis was vanquished."--Virgil, _Eclogues_, vii. 69. =179=: 9. =The old Roman fable.= The fable of the Belly and the Members, told in Livy, Bk. ii, Chap. xxxii; retold by Shakespeare in _Coriolanus_, i. 1. 99. =179=: 13. =The landed and trading interest.= See note, p. 242. =180=: 3. =Carthaginian faith.= _Punica fides_, a phrase used by the Romans to characterize the treachery of the Carthaginians. =183=: 21. =Throws down no man's enclosure, and tramples upon no man's corn=, as country gentlemen do when hunting over the grounds of their neighbours or their tenants.