Coaching days and coaching ways . the Wonder from Shifnal to Shrewsbury (18 miles).Not only was he a fine performer on the Road—but hedid a deed in the usual way of business when he got intoShrewsbury which made spectators stare. The Lionyard is just on the top of the hill in Shrewsbury, and isso placed that to coachmen not demigods, to turn intoit off a sharpish pitch with a heavy load was to attemptthe impossible to an accompaniment of breaking polesand shrieking passengers. All other coaches comingfrom London went in therefore ignominiously by the back-way, though they came out at the usual
Coaching days and coaching ways . the Wonder from Shifnal to Shrewsbury (18 miles).Not only was he a fine performer on the Road—but hedid a deed in the usual way of business when he got intoShrewsbury which made spectators stare. The Lionyard is just on the top of the hill in Shrewsbury, and isso placed that to coachmen not demigods, to turn intoit off a sharpish pitch with a heavy load was to attemptthe impossible to an accompaniment of breaking polesand shrieking passengers. All other coaches comingfrom London went in therefore ignominiously by the back-way, though they came out at the usual entrance. Notso Sam Hayward on the Wonder. Secure in the know-ledge of accomplished strength he smilingly hugged thekerbstone on the near side, passed the entrance for a fewyards—but yards accurately calculated—then describeda round and imperial circle, and shot in under the arch-way a victorious, a classic charioteer. People at firstthought him mad—I read, when they saw him thus as it 364 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS. c tr The Rows of Chester. THE IIOLV11KAI) ROAD 55 were defying the thunder—but they soon saw that heknew what he was doing, and could do it. Of quite a different type was one Wintcrbotham—who drove the Holyhead Mail four stages out of Holy-head and who on one occasion when Mr. Kirch Reynard-son—the great authority in this part of the world—approached the coach, was described to him by the guardas being amazing fresh. Amazing fresh is not onlygood in my eyes: it is delicious. And how when
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