Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1909 — The Archbishop on the Box. [ARTICLE]

The Archbishop on the Box.

It was a former Archbishop of York—Dr. Thomson. —who appeared once in the role at coachman. He had attended an evening party and, on leaving the house, discovered that his coachman was drunk. There appeared nothing for it_but to drive home himself, and the Archbishop, after placing the smiling but unconscious coachman inside the carriage, mounted the box and took the reins. The monotony of the homeward journey broken by a wheel of the carriage coming into violent collision with a stone just outside the entrance to Bishopsthorpe. The lodge keeper, unable recognize the approaching figure in the darkness called out cheerily: “Hallo, Bill, drunk a L Mowed if you ain’t got the old oock’s hat on!” “It’s the old cock himself.” gravely responded his Grace. —Argonaut.