272 COACHING. 



as eight hundred shots or bomb-shell splinters. 

 The coachman's box is broken, and only one 

 wheel hangs on to the vehicle." 



I have now given the agremens and desagremeiis 

 of coaching, and have come to the conclusion 

 that all unprejudiced persons would prefer the 

 rail to the road, especially those to whom time 

 and money are objects. A man may now break- 

 fast in London and dine in Dublin, and this 

 journey can be performed at (as compared with 

 former charges) a very considerable reduc- 

 tion. 



Pullman's cars, now confined to the Midland, 

 and partly to the Brighton line, will soon become 

 universal. Then a night journey will be free 

 from exertion, and after a good night's rest the 

 traveller will find himself some hundred miles 

 from the place of departure. Those, too, who 

 indulge in " sublime tobacco," whether in the 

 shape of a meerschaum, brier, clay pipe, a 

 mild Havannah cigar, or a Latakia cigarette, 

 can smoke in a covered carriage, instead as of 

 old on the outside of a mail coach, amidst a 

 pelting, pitiless storm. However, as tastes 

 differ, there will always be a certain number 

 of old stagers who, denouncing steam, will talk 

 with rapture of the palmy days of the road, and 



