. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. off a coach, why there you are ! but if you are in arailway accident, where are you t The coach might breakdown, as it often did, a wheel come off, or an axle, or a polebreak—or the coach might be, as it ofttimes was, over-loaded, and then in a rut—why, over all went. The horses,too, were apt to cast shoes, slip down, get their legs overthe traces, or take to kicking, besides which the harnesswould .snap, either the traces, or the breeching, or the reins. I $4 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. and these terrors were amplified by t
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. off a coach, why there you are ! but if you are in arailway accident, where are you t The coach might breakdown, as it often did, a wheel come off, or an axle, or a polebreak—or the coach might be, as it ofttimes was, over-loaded, and then in a rut—why, over all went. The horses,too, were apt to cast shoes, slip down, get their legs overthe traces, or take to kicking, besides which the harnesswould .snap, either the traces, or the breeching, or the reins. I $4 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. and these terrors were amplified by the probabihty oJencountering highwaymen, who were naturally attractedto attack the stage coaches, not only on account ofthe money and valuables which the passengers carriedwith them, but because parcels of great price were en-trusted to the coachman, such as gold, or notes andsecurities, for country banks, remittances between com-mercial firms, &c. In the illustration showing a stage coach, it will be seenthat there is a supplementary portion attached, made of. THE STAGE WAGGON. Wicker-work, and called the basket. This was for thereception of parcels. The mail coaches, which took long,direct routes, will be spoken of under the heading of PostOffice. Inconvenient to a degree, as were these stage coaches,with exposure to all changes of weather, if outside—orelse cooped up in a very stuffy inside, with possibly dis-agreeable, or invalid, companions—they were the onlymeans of communication between those places unvisited bythe mail coach, and also for those which required a morefrequent service. They were very numerous, so much so STAGE WAGGONS. i8: that, although I began to count them, I gave up the task, asnot being worth the candle. But it was not every one who could afford to travel bystage coach, and for them was the stage waggon, orcaravan, huge and cumbrous machines, with immenselybroad wheels, so as to take a good grip of the road, andmake light of the ruts. These ma
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