OLD COACHING DAYS. 



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those days, but we were always good friends. Should this 

 narrative chance to meet the eye of some of those who used 

 to travel with us in bygone times, they will doubtless well 

 remember the pace we used to go. 



After a few years the railway opened to Plymouth, and 

 many gentlemen asked me to start a fast coach into Corn- 



Rivals. 



wall, promising to give it their patronage. I accordingly 

 started the Tally Ho ! making it a day coach from Truro to 

 London, joining the rail at Plymouth ; this was a very difficult 

 road for a fast coach, but we ran it, till Government offered the 

 contract for a mail ; we then converted the Tally Ho ! into 

 a mail, and ran it till the rail opened to Truro. It will have 



