I50 THE COACHING ERA 



Added to these were of course the sheets, eiderdown 

 quilt, and the hart skins, besides personal clothing, so 

 that the reader who faithfully carried out the direftions 

 enshrined in the "Oracle" encountered a serious obstacle 

 not referred to in those pages. Travellers generally were 

 only allowed 14 lb. weight of luggage, extra weight being 

 chargeable at 3d. per lb., and its carriage on a full coach 

 uncertain. 



Imagination refuses adequately to pidlure the harrow- 

 ing situation of a traveller endeavouring to reduce his 

 luggage within prescribed limits, and hesitating between 

 sacrificing a change of linen, the hart skins, or the knife 

 with the saw and adequate corkscrew. 



