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be any danger in the horses being out 

 of sight of the officer, he could send a 

 man to go backward and forward with 

 them. 7 ' 



This seemed so reasonable to the gen- 

 tleman that he gave his consent, and the 

 company had the honour of his co-part- 

 nership till it was ultimately disposed 

 of to the Sheriff's officer. 



In the meantime an improvement in 

 pace had manifested itself on the Cam- 

 bridge road. The old established coaches 

 were expedited an hour, and two others 

 had been lately started to go up and 

 down in a day. This caused the old 

 Lynn to become more in disrepute ; and 

 I took occasion to observe one evening 

 to my London friend, that the time had 

 arrived when some exertion was neces- 

 sary to put the Lynn coach on a more 

 respectable footing, more in accordance 

 with the times ; for that already a 

 new coach was talked of, and a new 



