54 COACHING. 



of the most spirited in England. He had, at 

 one time, two of the very best coaches that 

 ever ran — the " Hirondelle" and " "Wonder." 

 No coach estabUshed for itself a higher 

 reputation than the former. On May 1st, 

 (the precise year he could not recollect) it 

 accomplished its journey of one hundred and 

 twenty miles in eight hours and twenty 

 -minutes — a speed few coaches could ever boast 

 of. 



''He (Mr. Kenyon) was in Shrewsbury that 

 day, and saw a team of four greys, belonging 

 to Mr. Taylor, enter the town, which had done 

 their nine miles in thirty-five minutes. He 

 recollected that there were two ladies inside the 

 coach, who were informed that, as that day 

 was appointed for a trial of strength, they might? 

 if they were frightened at the speed, choose any 

 other conveyance they pleased, and should be 

 forwarded on their journey immediately ; but 

 their answer showed good blood ; they said they 

 were not aware that they had come at the great 

 speed they had, and that they preferred going 

 fast. 



"With regard to the 'Wonder,' he himself 

 left the ' Lion Yard,' Shrewsbury, one morning 

 at six o'clock, and was at Islington the same 



