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does not apply to a subscriber, when driving, but 

 in this case the regular, licensed coachman must be 

 on the coach, and is supposed to have charge of it. 



In London, the regulations are more simple, but 

 there, and in American cities, licenses must be ob- 

 tained, and the coaches numbered, like all other 

 vehicles plying for public hire. In London, public- 

 coaches are not admitted to Hyde Park, and there 

 are, in nearly all cities, regulations, more or less 

 restrictive, in regard to Public Parks. 



On a route which occupies all day, or on a road 

 where the coach runs to a place and returns, it is 

 usual to make an arrangement with the hotel at 

 which the stop is made, to furnish a lunch at a fixed 

 price, and to send word by telegraph at the time of 

 starting, or from any convenient place, for what 

 number of persons lunch is to be provided. It is 

 customary for the proprietor, or the amateur coach- 

 man, to sit at the head of the lunch table. The 

 professional coachman and the guard make their 

 own arrangements for meals. At some change- 

 place which is passed in the afternoon, a stop of 

 six or seven minutes is made for a cup of tea. 



The fees given to the professional coachman and 

 to the oaiard belong, of course, to them ; those which 

 are sometimes given to the amateur coachman are 

 either handed over to the professionals or to some 

 charity. 



There are many notes in the books as to the 

 distances driven by coachmen. Corrett, p. 134, 



