. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. CHAPTER XIV. Posting on the Great North Road—Bob Newman of Regent Street—Old Boys —Loyal Tom King of Amersham ; he drivesKing George III.—An Elopement and the Sequel—May-DayProcession of the Mails—The Railway Fiend—The Wisdom ofWeller—Old London Inns—An English Bill of Fare and theMenu a la Russe—i:\i^ Old Norfolk Circuit—The Bar Mess :Fitzroy Kelly v. Serjeant Storks—One Pint many Times—Puritan Ipswich—A Peccant Engine. In my early childhood and boyhood the old modes oftravelling by post-
. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. CHAPTER XIV. Posting on the Great North Road—Bob Newman of Regent Street—Old Boys —Loyal Tom King of Amersham ; he drivesKing George III.—An Elopement and the Sequel—May-DayProcession of the Mails—The Railway Fiend—The Wisdom ofWeller—Old London Inns—An English Bill of Fare and theMenu a la Russe—i:\i^ Old Norfolk Circuit—The Bar Mess :Fitzroy Kelly v. Serjeant Storks—One Pint many Times—Puritan Ipswich—A Peccant Engine. In my early childhood and boyhood the old modes oftravelling by post-horses and stage-coaches had beenbrought to great perfection, and the pace at which thepublic then travelled seemed incredible to a formergeneration—in fact, the arrangements for the differentlines of posting on the main arteries out of Londonalmost deserved the name of a fine art. The practice ofwhat was called running in money was the system ofpaying post-boys a certain sum of money as a premiumfor bringing a carriage with either a pair or four horsesto the first chang
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