Coaching days and coaching ways . those whocan believe in it will. And now I come to a less legendary side of mysubject. Turpin has taken us to York : and faster thanwe could have gone there in the Coaching Age—fastera good deal—but he has not stopped for us at any ofthe inns, and to one or two of these inns on the greatNorth Road I wish particularly to introduce my they are hostelries in the true sense of the word,and call up even now I know not what coloured THE YORK ROAD *> *y -» reminiscences of the full life of the Coaching Age—reminiscences of the late arrival of fagged tr
Coaching days and coaching ways . those whocan believe in it will. And now I come to a less legendary side of mysubject. Turpin has taken us to York : and faster thanwe could have gone there in the Coaching Age—fastera good deal—but he has not stopped for us at any ofthe inns, and to one or two of these inns on the greatNorth Road I wish particularly to introduce my they are hostelries in the true sense of the word,and call up even now I know not what coloured THE YORK ROAD *> *y -» reminiscences of the full life of the Coaching Age—reminiscences of the late arrival of fagged travellerson snowy nights before ample porches, their inductionthence, their immediate induction half frozen as theywere, into snug parlours adorned with prints of coachesat full gallop, revealed by the light of a fire blazinghalf-way up the chimney ;—reminiscences too of tablecomforts considered prodigious in these degenerate days—with good liquor to round the story, and a dreamlesssleep between lavender-scented ?_* -> it* r i > J~_
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