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sirable to be at the trouble of putting on 

 the coach with which I was concerned, 

 though the Wisbeach and one of the early 

 Cambridge coaches took advantage of it. 

 After far more than necessary time had 

 been spent, in which the incapacity of the 

 directors and the want of funds were both 

 conspicuous, the line reached Bishop's Stort- 

 ford, when, at the instigation of the London 

 Proprietors, who had become deeply inter- 

 ested in railroads, the old Lynn coach com- 

 pany was dissolved, and a new proprietor 

 was admitted at Cambridge. In the fresh 

 arrangement that was made I had to turn 

 my back upon London, and drive from 

 Cambridge to Lynn, or do nothing a sad 

 alternative, but there was no help for it. 



This was the first blow given to my do- 

 mestic establishment; and the comfort I 

 derived from having my Sundays at home. 

 It did not seem to decrease the dislike I 

 had long taken to the profession, to which 

 perhaps the undeserved praises bestowed on 



