South London . AN OLD MILL, BANKSIDE waggons, which carried heavy goods and passengers not in ahurry, were also covered with a tilt; their broad wheels andcapacious interior can be restored, as well as the coach, fromthat most trustworthy painter of his own time. As for thecaravans, I am in some doubt. I suppose, however, that a IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 257 caravan was then what it is now, in which case it was anelementary Pullmans car, in which people and their effectsivere drawn slowly along the road, in a four-wheeled coveredcart. Perhaps the passengers slept in the car at night, drawnup b
South London . AN OLD MILL, BANKSIDE waggons, which carried heavy goods and passengers not in ahurry, were also covered with a tilt; their broad wheels andcapacious interior can be restored, as well as the coach, fromthat most trustworthy painter of his own time. As for thecaravans, I am in some doubt. I suppose, however, that a IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 257 caravan was then what it is now, in which case it was anelementary Pullmans car, in which people and their effectsivere drawn slowly along the road, in a four-wheeled coveredcart. Perhaps the passengers slept in the car at night, drawnup by the roadside, like the gipsies. But of this theory Ihave no kind of proof. From the Borough alone, without counting the vehicleswhich passed through to or from the City, there were sent. JOHN BUNYANS meeting HOUSE, -BANKSIDE out, every week, one hundred and forty-three stage coaches :one hundred and twenty-one waggons : and one hundred andninety-six carts and caravans. And, of course, the samenumber came back every week. There was a continual suc-cession of departures and arrivals ; all day long, one after theother, the stage coaches came galloping up each to its owninn ; while they were still far away the people of the innknew when their own coach was coming by the tune played S 258 SOUTH LOxNDON on the guards bugle : the High Street, in fact, was like araihvay terminus, where trains are arriving and leaving allday long. I am quite sure that we have no idea at all of the life andanimation at a London inn when the stages were started and /»;/y I/.
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