222 COACHING. 



were to go to the next chemist's you would 

 get it for fourpence — very likely of the same 

 quality. But the great impositions were, after 

 all, the charges for wax-lights and break- 

 fasts. 



Gas has now superseded the former, but 

 breakfasts were and are still charged too high. 

 " Breakfast, with eggs and bacon, three shil- 

 lings and sixpence," was and is the charge at 

 fashionable hotels ; at less pretentious ones you 

 may get the same for two shillings, or at most 

 half-a-crown. 



