Being somewhat weary, as well as undetermined in what manner next to proceed, I seated myself on a grassy bank beside the road.

The spot which I had chosen was aloof from passengers, and shrowded in the deepest obscurity.
Some time elapsed, when my attention was excited by the slow approach of an equipage.

I presently discovered a coach and six horses, but unattended, except by coachman and postillion, and with no light to guide them on their way.

Scarcely had they passed the spot where I rested, when some one leaped from beneath the hedge, and seized the head of the fore-horses.

Another called upon the coachman to stop, and threatened him with instant death if he disobeyed.