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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



This sort of romance makes us feel momentarily 

 thankful for railway trains, and drivers, who have to pass 

 a severe examination, and are not supposed to take 

 anything stronger than cold tea. Not however must 

 the impression be permitted to remain (in spite of Viator's 



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savage indignation) that all the Brighton coachmen 

 were the dangerous dunces which the above experience 

 shows one of them to have been. 



On the contrary several among them were of the A I 

 class — others not up to this standard quite ; but 

 decidedly fair all round. In the latter category was 



