Coaching days and coaching ways . teousand cultivated proprietor. All is shown to those whoare interested and reverent. The long room where theball took place, with crimson covered benches and waxcandles in glass chandeliers ; the elevated den in whichthe musicians were securely confined; the corner ofthe staircase where the indignant Slammer met the vic-torious Jingle returning after escorting Mrs. Budger toher carriage, and said Sir ! in an awful voice, pro-ducing a card ; the bedroom of Winkle inside that ofMr. Tupmans, an arrangement which enabled to restore his borrowed plumage
Coaching days and coaching ways . teousand cultivated proprietor. All is shown to those whoare interested and reverent. The long room where theball took place, with crimson covered benches and waxcandles in glass chandeliers ; the elevated den in whichthe musicians were securely confined; the corner ofthe staircase where the indignant Slammer met the vic-torious Jingle returning after escorting Mrs. Budger toher carriage, and said Sir ! in an awful voice, pro-ducing a card ; the bedroom of Winkle inside that ofMr. Tupmans, an arrangement which enabled to restore his borrowed plumage unbeknownst1at the conclusion of the ball. All the first part of Pick-wick is to be seen I say at the Bull and Victoria—withsurroundings eloquent of the old-world past ; and whichthe author has in some other of his works thus graphicallydescribed :— A famous inn ! The hall a very grove of dead game,and dangling joints of mutton ; and in one corner anillustrious larder, with glass doors developing cold fowls THE DOVER ROAD 249. Courtyard of Bull and Victoria, Rochester. and noble joints. And tarts wherein the raspberry jamcoyly withdrew itself, as such a precious creature should,behind a lattice work of pastry. 250 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS But to leave the Bull and Pickwick (for the Bull isnot the only inn in Rochester to be described, nor is theHistory of Pickwick by any manner of means its onlyhistory)—the Crown, which stands at the foot of thebridge, is a modern house now, but it is built on the siteof a venerable place with gables and barge boards, whichstood in 1390, and was pulled down (without a drawinghaving been made of it, it is needless to remark) so lateonly as 1863. A portion of the original stable stillstands, which is a remarkably interesting fact, since it washere that that scene with the carriers took place in HenryIV., Act II., Scene I, which was an introduction to therobbery on Gads Hill. To the Crown in its old shapecame as visitor Henry the Eigh
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