Coaching days and coaching ways . ,unpolluted as yet with Art, with poisonous honey stolen from France. The distinguished author of Tancred and the Treatyof Berlin has described the half hour for dinner at suchan inn as the Kings Head with much spirit. The coach stops here half an hour, gentlemen: dinnerquite ready. Tis a delightful sound. And what a dinner ! Whata profusion of substantial delicacies ! What mighty andiris-tinted rounds of beef! What vast and marble-veined ribs ! What gelatinous veal pies ! What colossalhams! Those are evidently prize cheeses ! And howinvigorating is the perfum
Coaching days and coaching ways . ,unpolluted as yet with Art, with poisonous honey stolen from France. The distinguished author of Tancred and the Treatyof Berlin has described the half hour for dinner at suchan inn as the Kings Head with much spirit. The coach stops here half an hour, gentlemen: dinnerquite ready. Tis a delightful sound. And what a dinner ! Whata profusion of substantial delicacies ! What mighty andiris-tinted rounds of beef! What vast and marble-veined ribs ! What gelatinous veal pies ! What colossalhams! Those are evidently prize cheeses ! And howinvigorating is the perfume of those various andvariegated pickles! Then the bustle emulating theplenty ; the ringing of bells, the clash of thoroughfare,the summoning of ubiquitous waiters, and the all-pervad-ing feeling of omnipotence from the guests, who orderwhat they please to the landlord, who can produce andexecute everything they can desire. Tis a wondroussight ! Three miles further on and we are at Newbury, or D 34 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS. /- -? eJ-h- q^M Courtyard of Angel, Woolhampton. A-,r ri * ,/.* , rather at Speenhainland, a kind of suburb of inns andposting houses which connected it with the Bath Road ;and at Newbury, and indeed right on to Hungerford, we THE BATH ROAD 35 arc on historic ground. It is out of my province todescribe in detail the rise and fall of the fortunes of thefight during those two tremendous days, September 16th,1643, and October 27th, 1644, when the best blood ofEngland was poured out like water on Speen Hill, andthe cause of Charles the First was upheld by an uncertaintriumph ; nor have I space to do more than make passing \
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