Coaching days and coaching ways . f - Tr». *--.^>. Courtyard of the Saracens //tad, Towcester. Matthews who drove the Oak and Nettle coaches fromWelshpool to Liverpool, which were run in opposition tothe Holyhead Mail and were often too fast to be poor Jack fell no willing victim to his own indiscretion,but was killed—it is with a blush for the departed that Iwrite it—in a railway accident. In a foolish momenthe took it into his head to go to Liverpool for a days THE HOLYHEAD ROAD 361 outing, in a foolishcr moment, if there be such a word,he got on a railway which was only half fin
Coaching days and coaching ways . f - Tr». *--.^>. Courtyard of the Saracens //tad, Towcester. Matthews who drove the Oak and Nettle coaches fromWelshpool to Liverpool, which were run in opposition tothe Holyhead Mail and were often too fast to be poor Jack fell no willing victim to his own indiscretion,but was killed—it is with a blush for the departed that Iwrite it—in a railway accident. In a foolish momenthe took it into his head to go to Liverpool for a days THE HOLYHEAD ROAD 361 outing, in a foolishcr moment, if there be such a word,he got on a railway which was only half finished. Hegot on to this railway at Wrexham, intending to go asfar as Chester. This feat the unfinished railway accom-plished for him, only however to throw him off a bridge(unfinished too, I suppose) when he got there. Wellmay his biographer exclaim, Poor Jack ! He wouldhave been safer driving the Nettle Coach, in all proba-bility ! (which in all probability gives us a very fairidea of the safety of the Nettle Coach! But this is adigression.) An
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