"You must have plenty of tongues," she said, "in case the fire won't burn or the meat is too tough;" and privately she instructed Kink to keep an eye on their eating.

"They must eat, Kink, don't forget.

Never mind what they say; make them eat sensibly." To the stores Mrs.Avory herself added a number of tongues and a good deal of plain chocolate.
The day for Kink's departure--at least three days before the others were to leave--at last arrived, and by eleven o'clock everything was ready: Kink was seated on the shafts, with the reins in one hand, and in the other an ancient map of the road from London to Oxford, which Robert had found in one of his father's Road Books, of which there were many in the library, and had carefully traced.

It was called _Britannia Depicta;_ OR, _"Ogilby" Improved,_ 1753, and, so that you may see what kind of help Kink was offered, I have had the map reproduced here.
Kink, I may say, having some difficulty in reading even the plain print of the morning paper, held the tracing in his hand only so far as he was in sight.

He then folded it up and placed it in his pocket, and when he was in any doubt as to the way, asked the first person he met.
Mr.Lenox and Mr.Scott were both there in time to see the start of the Slowcoach, as they had decided to call it.