70 CHANGE. 



During the period I have been writing 

 of, a very remarkable alteration and im- 

 provement had taken place in the system 

 of stage-coach travelling. Instead of the 

 old heavy lumbering vehicle, with the 

 boot fixed on the fore-axle, and a large 

 basket on the hind, with a license to 

 carry six inside passengers and as many 

 as could well be crowded on the out- 

 side, after repeated steps in the forward 

 direction, the new and elegant Telegraph 

 coaches made their appearance. With 

 them came a change in the quality of the 

 animals, whether biped or quadruped, at- 

 tached to them. 



It is with the former I have more 

 particularly to do. Those of the original 

 craft, sons of men who had been long 

 known in the old school of whom I may 

 speak more particularly hereafter assumed 

 a different style of dress and having bene- 

 fitted a little more by education than their 



