Coaching days and coaching ways . ngconveyed to gaol —a drunken fellow half asleep falls off the Coach—and inattempting to save himself drags you along with him into the mud—musical guard, and driver horn mad—turned over.—One leg under a baleof cotton—the other under the Coach—hands in breeches pockets—head inhamper of wine—lots of broken bottles versus broken heads. Cut and run—send for surgeon—wounds dressed—lotion and lint four dollars—takepost-chaise—get home—lay down—and laid up. So much for coach travelling from a pessimisticpoint of view. And now a few words on the CoachingInns. There i
Coaching days and coaching ways . ngconveyed to gaol —a drunken fellow half asleep falls off the Coach—and inattempting to save himself drags you along with him into the mud—musical guard, and driver horn mad—turned over.—One leg under a baleof cotton—the other under the Coach—hands in breeches pockets—head inhamper of wine—lots of broken bottles versus broken heads. Cut and run—send for surgeon—wounds dressed—lotion and lint four dollars—takepost-chaise—get home—lay down—and laid up. So much for coach travelling from a pessimisticpoint of view. And now a few words on the CoachingInns. There is no private house, said Johnson—it was in 374 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS the Old Chapel House inn in Oxfordshire, on the Bir-mingham Road, that he gave vent to the profoundity— there is no place, he said, at which people can enjoythemselves so well as at a capital tavern like this. Letthere be ever so great a plenty of good things, ever somuch grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much. A Performance on the Hern. desire that every guest should be easy, in the nature oithings it cannot be. There must always be some degreeof care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxiousto entertain his friends ; these in their turn are anxiousto be agreeable to him, and no one but a very impudentdo£ can as freelv command what is in another mans CONCLUSION 375 house as if he were in his own. Whereas at a tavern thereis a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure youare welcome, and the more noise you make, the moretrouble you give, the more good things you call for, thewelcomer you are. No servants will attend you with thealacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospectof an immediate reward in proportion as they , sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrivedby man by which so much happiness is produced as by agood tavern or inn. Hear, hear ! say I ; but while on the subject of innsmay remark that I have been much disa
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