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CHAPTER XXI 

 COACHING TRIPS 



Few more delightful ways of travelling can be 

 imagined than that of driving a coach through an 

 interesting country. 



When a man starts with his coach and horses, 

 from his own home, few preparations are necessary 

 beyond laying out the route and making arrange- 

 ments ahead at the stopping-places. 



It is necessary, if the party is at all large, to have 

 the heavier baggage sent on by a messenger, day 

 by day, but where that is not possible, it must be 

 despatched to some point ahead, and the travellers 

 must content themselves with modest valises. 



With a good team, carefully driven, from 20 to 

 25 miles a day can be easily made over good roads, 

 for an indefinite time. 



In England and in France, where the roads are 

 admirable, the inns good, and the stopping-places 

 near together, coaching trips can be readily arranged. 



A coach with the men, and with either one team 

 or two, can be had from a jobmaster of London or 

 Paris ; with two teams, twice the distance that can 

 be made with one team, can be driven each day ; 

 four horses being sent on by train every half-day 

 while the others are working. 



