Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . Illustrated from Old- Time Printsand Pictures London : CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited1903 All rights reserved PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD. LONDON AND PREF/ICE Vy^ * J-IANG up my old wliip over the fireplace,said Harry Littler, of the Southampton Telegrapjh, lohen the London and SouthamptonMailioay icas opened, in 1833,— I shant loant itnever no more ; and he fell ill, turned his face tothe wall, and died. The end of the coaching age was a tragedy forthe coachmen ; and even to many others, whosec
Stage-coach and mail in days of yore : a picturesque history of the coaching age . Illustrated from Old- Time Printsand Pictures London : CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited1903 All rights reserved PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD. LONDON AND PREF/ICE Vy^ * J-IANG up my old wliip over the fireplace,said Harry Littler, of the Southampton Telegrapjh, lohen the London and SouthamptonMailioay icas opened, in 1833,— I shant loant itnever no more ; and he fell ill, turned his face tothe wall, and died. The end of the coaching age was a tragedy forthe coachmen ; and even to many others, whosecareers and livelihood were not hound up with theold order of things, it tvas a bitter uprooting ofestablished customs. 3Iany travellers v:ere neverreconciled to railways, and in imagination dioeltfondly in the old days of the road for the rest oftheir lives ; while many more never ceased to re-count stories of the peculiar glory and exhilarationof old-time travel, forgetting the miseries and in-conveniences that formed part of it. But althoughreminiscent oldsters have talked much about thosevanished times, they have rarely attempted a con-secutive story of them. Such an attempd is thatessayed in these pages, confined within the compassof t
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