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Sam Price, were regarded at every coaching 

 house between London and Lincoln as be- 

 longing to the ''tip-toppers" or aristocrats of 

 the coaching world. Sam was wonderfully 

 accomplished in the use of the coach horn ; he 

 always used to play '*Kory O'More " or a 

 " Tantivy " as he came into Biggleswade, 

 and every time he came in you would see a 

 good round score of his admirers among the 

 townspeople turn out to give him a hearty 

 greeting. 



The Rockingham was another splendidly 

 horsed coach on this road, and others were, 

 the London and Boston Mail, the Hennesey 

 (a i^rivately-horsed coach run by a syndicate), 

 the London and Stamford, the Magnet, the 

 High Flyer, and many others. Of the drivers, 

 George Cartwriglit was another famous whip, 

 a character known to everybody right up and 

 down the road, and who I can see now as 

 though it were but yesterday, his great round, 

 rubicund, jolly face beaming down at us 

 youngsters with the graciousness and warmth 



of the rising sun. 



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