him and with Tony Weller, who was so familiar with it and so
attached to it, as to name it as the parish he resided in.

[illustration: The Cambridge Coach leaving Belle Sauvage yard.
From a lithograph]

The relating of the story of how Tony Weller was driven into
his second marriage, which reveals "La Belle Sauvage" as his
headquarters, also first brings into prominence the "Markis o'
Granby," Dorking, as the residence of Mrs. Susan Clarke, and
incidentally the scene of more than one amusing incident after
she became Mrs. Weller, senior. "The 'Marquis of Granby' in Mrs.
Weller's time," we are informed, "was quite a model of a roadside
public-house of the better class--just large enough to be convenient,
and small enough to be snug."

In the chapter describing how Sam displayed his high sense of duty
as a son, by paying a visit to his "mother-in-law," as he called
her, and how he discovered Mr. Stiggins indulging in "hot pine-apple
rum and water," we get a little pen-picture of the inn.

"On the opposite side of the road was a signboard on a high post
representing the head and shoulders of a gentleman with an
apoplectic countenance, in a red coat with deep blue facings, and
a touch of the same over his three-cornered hat, for a sky . . . an
undoubted likeness of the Marquis of Granby of glorious memory. The
bar window displayed a choice collection of geranium plants, and a
well-dusted row of spirit phials. The open shutters bore a variety
of golden inscriptions, eulogistic of good beds and neat wines; and
the choice group of countrymen and hostlers lounging about the stable