. The delights of coaching. e conveyance was a model of symmetryand lightness, yet not too light, for in that case she [43]would have,been continually on the jump, as coach-men call it, and her iron parts very liable to , she was loaded with care. The heavierpackages were put into the boots and the lighter onesonly on the top. A well-loaded coach was not only apleasure to the traveller, but reduced to a minimum ? The Delights of Coaching. ? [4+] the risks of an accident. An ill-loaded coach is alikedangerous and uncomfortable. In the choice of the horses, the skill of the driver,a
. The delights of coaching. e conveyance was a model of symmetryand lightness, yet not too light, for in that case she [43]would have,been continually on the jump, as coach-men call it, and her iron parts very liable to , she was loaded with care. The heavierpackages were put into the boots and the lighter onesonly on the top. A well-loaded coach was not only apleasure to the traveller, but reduced to a minimum ? The Delights of Coaching. ? [4+] the risks of an accident. An ill-loaded coach is alikedangerous and uncomfortable. In the choice of the horses, the skill of the driver,and the build of the vehicle, lies the whole art of thecoach. THE REFIFAL, REVIVAL, lITH the transformation of the pro-fessional stage-coach into the amateurdrag coaching underwent the last andgreatest change in its career. In 1868the Old Times coach was started to Brighton as the property of a company of gentlemen. The second coach was one to Beckenham and Bromley. Then the art became a mania, as in the past. The. [45] ? The Delights of Coaching, ? railings of the White Horse cellars were placarded oncemore with handbills of all colors. A well-appointedfour-horse coach, ran the announcement, will leaveHatchetts Hotel on such and such days for nearly every[46] provincial town within fifty miles of London. Thepavement was crowded as of old. Knots of gentle-men, writes Captain Hawarth, ** discussed the meritsof this wheeler or that leader till reminded by the WhiteHorse clock that time was up, they took a cursoryglance at their way-bills, and, mounting their boxes,stole away to the accompaniment of a yard of tin. THE REVIVAL, May Day, 1876, Is celebrated in the annals of theroad as the occasion of the revival of the public stage-coach between Oxford and London. In the good oldtimes Oxford was as well served as any city In thekingdom, but since the Prince of Wales, which used [47]to start from the Vine Inn of that city, ceased to run,more than a quarter of a century before,
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