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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13., Stage-coach days in Medford. (search)
return! The humor of the name struck Portsmouth's witty son, that delightful Bad Boy, for he says the Flying Stage-Coach crept back from Boston. Let us look at one whose portrait a poet has given us: One hundred years ago, and something more, In Queen Street, Portsmouth, at the tavern door, Neat as a pin, and blooming as a rose, Stood Mistress Stavers in her furbelows, Just as the cuckoo-clock was striking nine. Above her head, resplendent on the sign, The portrait of the Earl of Halifax, In scarlet coat and periwig of flax, Surveyed at leisure all her varied charms, Her cap, her bodice, her white folded arms, And half resolved, though he was past his prime, And rather damaged by the lapse of time, To fall down at her feet, and to declare The passion that had driven him to despair. For from his lofty station he had seen Stavers, her husband, dressed in bottle green, Drive his new Flying Stage-Coach, four in hand, Down the long lane and out into the land, And knew that he wa