linkman

They strolled down the road for a few moments in silence, passing a linkman on the way.

And this was so thick that late fashionables, riding home in their grand carriages, were preceded each carriage by a pair of linkmen.

I got all my information, when it was over, as well as I could, from an inebriated linkman.

I am stopping the way, and the linkman is getting quite excited over it.'

Though thou art tempted by the linkman's call, Yet trust him not along the lonely wall; In the midway he'll quench the flaming brand, And share the booty with the pilfering band.