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it may be worth noting that, in New York, it became 

 the custom to call an omnibus, which ran only over 

 a short route, a ' stage ;' first applying an improper 

 name, 'stage-coach,' and then dropping the char- 

 acteristic term and retaining the other designation 

 only. 



The popular word in America for a four-in-hand 

 coach: 'Tally-ho,' is entirely incorrect, and should 

 not be used. It originated thus: When, in 1876, 

 Colonel Delancey Kane first put on his road-coach 

 from the Brunswick Hotel, New York, to Pelham, 

 he named it the 'Tally-ho.' This was in accord- 

 ance with the old English custom of giving names 

 to coaches, just as, for many years, engines were 

 named on railroads. 'Tally-ho,' 'Tantivy,' 'Light- 

 ning,' 'Meteor,' 'Defiance,' 'Quicksilver,' 'Inde- 

 pendent,' were favourite names, and were used in 

 advertising the coaches, and in speaking of them on 

 the road. Some newspapers, in writing about the 

 Pelham coach, called it the 'Tally-ho,' and others, 

 less well informed, called all four-horse coaches 

 'Tally-ho's.' Many mild protests were made, with- 

 out avail, by coaching men, against such an incor- 

 rect expression, and finally an American Dictionary, 

 the Century, published in 1891, embalmed and per- 

 petuated the error as follows : 



'Tally-ho (tal'i-ho) [< tally-ho, inter]".]. 1. A cry 

 'of "Tally-ho." See the interjection. 2. A four-in- 

 ' hand pleasure-coach ; probably so called from the 

 ' horn blown on it. 



