THE ROAD. 
horse. The most proper food, then, for a coach-horse 
in fast work is that which affords him sufficient nourish- 
ment, without having an injurious effect on his wind ; 
in other words, that which does not impair his respiratory 
organs by pressing on them." 
It may, probably, surprise many of our readers to 
be informed of the extent to which individual persons in 
England embark their capital in what is termed the 
coaching-line. Mr. Chaplin, who is the occupier of the 
five following "yards," as they are termed, in London, 
namely, those of the Spread Eagle, and Cross Keys, 
Gracechurch Street ; the Swan with Two necks, Lad 
Lane ; the White Horse, Fetter Lane ; and the Angel, 
behind St. Clement's, has no less than thirteen hundred 
horses at work, in various coaches, on various roads ; 
and Messrs. Home and Sherman, the two next largest 
coach-proprietors in London, have about seven hundred 
each. Those who have not witnessed it, might, 
perhaps, be still more astonished at the regularity 
and ease with which these prodigious, apparently 
overwhelming, establishments are conducted, by the 
means of foremen and subordinates well trained to their 
business. * 
It may not be uninteresting to the uninitiated to 
learn how a coach is worked. We will, then, assume 
that A, B, C, and D enter into a contract to horse a 
coach eighty miles, each proprietor having twenty miles ; 
* Mr. Chaplin is likewise proprietor of two London hotels, residing in 
that called " Osborne's," in the Adelphi. 
K 
