Coaching days and coaching ways . bootsare said to have been worn by the fortunate postillionwho went with the pair of fortunate horses which drewthe unfortunate Louis Philippes carriage when Clare-mont sheltered the royal exile. I can only remark inleaving these boots that they are very fine and large,and are obligingly shown to all visitors at the Bear bythe obliging landlord ; and so pass onto Cobham, threemiles four furlongs down the road, on the heath, sur-rounding which place, had we been travellers to Ports-mouth in the year of grace 1668, we should have foundMr. and Mrs. Pepys aimlessl
Coaching days and coaching ways . bootsare said to have been worn by the fortunate postillionwho went with the pair of fortunate horses which drewthe unfortunate Louis Philippes carriage when Clare-mont sheltered the royal exile. I can only remark inleaving these boots that they are very fine and large,and are obligingly shown to all visitors at the Bear bythe obliging landlord ; and so pass onto Cobham, threemiles four furlongs down the road, on the heath, sur-rounding which place, had we been travellers to Ports-mouth in the year of grace 1668, we should have foundMr. and Mrs. Pepys aimlessly wandering, having losttheir way for three or four miles. Travelling at alater date however we should not, I take it, have seenmuch at Cobham, except the White Lion, a fine old relicof old coaching days—out of the rush of life now, butalive still; where, having taken a glass of rum and milk,we should pass on to Ripley, three miles seven furlongson, noted for its cricketers, its green on which they play THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD 165. Guildford Town Hall. Courtyard of the Crown, Guildford. cricket, its old inn, the Talbot, full of gables, long corri-dors, and hoary memories of gastronomic feats, performedby cramped travellers in the twinkling of an eye to the 166 COACIIINCx DAYS AND COACHING WAYS accompaniment of the guards horn, relentlessly pro-claiming imminent departure. And from Ripley it is arun of six miles into Guildford, which is twenty-ninemiles seven furlongs from the Stones End in the Borough,the capital of Surrey, a most picturesque town, and a
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