4G COACHING. 



taken place in Eogland since I first began to 

 breathe in it the breath of life — a period amount- 

 ing now to nearly seventy-three years. Gas 

 was unknown. I groped about the streets of 

 London in all but the utter darkness of a twink- 

 ling oil lamp, under the protection of watchmen 

 in their grand climacteric, and exposed to every 

 species of depredation and insult. I have been 

 nine hours sailing from Dover to Calais before 

 the invention of steam. It took me nine hours 

 to go from Taunton to Bath before the invention 

 of railroads, and I now go in six hours from 

 London to Bath." 



The witty Reverend then proceeds to refer 

 to wooden pavements instead of stone ones, 

 the new police instead of the superannuated 

 " Charleys," the well-appointed cab (what would 

 he have said to the hansom) ? in lieu of the 

 lumbering hackney coach, waterproof instead 

 of primitive pulp hats ; he then calls the atten- 

 tion of the reader to the introduction of gentle- 

 men's braces, colchicum, calomel, and clubs. 

 He might have added, the greatest boons of 

 all, the telegraph, which " wafts a sigh from 

 Indus to the Pole," or, unpoetically speaking, 

 announces in an incredibly short space of time 

 the arrival of a friend in India or America, nor 



