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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



Road, did the i86 miles in eighteen hours eighteen 

 minutes, leaving the Bull and Mouth at five in the 

 morning, reaching the Peacock, Islington, at 5.15, and 

 Northampton at 8.40, where, according to Mr. Stanley 

 Harris, twenty minutes were allowed to eat as much as 

 you could, with tea or coffee (of course too hot to drink). 



And I think that the performances of these last 

 two coaches are so remarkable that I cannot emphasize 

 them more firmly than by here subjoining their re- 

 spective time-bills ; voiceless proclamations these of great 

 feats in the past, pasted long since most of them into 

 the scrap-books of old-fashioned travel, or hanging in 

 melancholy neglect and astounding frames on the smoke- 

 begrimed walls of once celebrated posting houses. 



Here then is the time-bill of the Wonder coach from 

 London to Shrewsbury : — 



Despatched from Bull and Month at 6.30 morning. 

 ,, ,, Peacock, Islington, at 6.^^ o'' clock. 



