40 COACHMEN. 



an appointment though the different 

 paths that were to lead to them were lu- 

 dicrously remarkable. One my friend 

 of the " Bedford Pilot" said, in his 

 simplicity, that from what he knew of 

 me he was sure I should have the sup- 

 port of all the University. Another, who 

 drove the " Norwich Telegraph" from New- 

 market, assured me that I was the very 

 man to go in among the young 'uns, and 

 monopolize all the betting. A third, 

 from Oxford, asked what time I passed 

 through Ware in the evening ; and on 

 my telling him about five, said, u You're 

 all right" meaning that the retail trade 

 would generally be abundant; while old 

 Quaker Will, as he was called, who drove 

 the " Cambridge Telegraph," drily aver- 

 red, as a fact, that when my Father's 

 predecessor in the London establishment 

 first started the Lynn coach, he took a 

 man out of Newgate (the debtors' side) 

 to drive it, and before he had been on 



