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'Is he your father that he takes all the money ?' ' No,' said I, 'he's 

 only my sleeping partner, and you know the sleeping partner 

 in a firm gets all the money.' So he laughed, and said, ' I will 

 come and have another ride as soon as ever I can ; ; and he 

 often came after and we made great friends. Our existence 

 depended on fish and parcels almost more than on passengers. 

 We did very well till the branch rails to Leatherhead, Dorking, 

 and Horsham ran us off the road. Poor old Clark got ill and 

 bedridden, and we gave up the coach, after which for several 

 years there was no coach to Brighton. 



In 1866 there was no coach running regularly from London 

 to Brighton, though Captain Haworth had been occasionally 

 on the road, and in the year named he asked me if I would 

 join in putting a coach on by way of Croydon and Crawley. 1 

 The result was that we started the New Times it was a yellow 

 coach. Three or four people horsed it. The Captain used to 

 go every day, but when any of us who horsed it went we used 

 to drive a good part of the way. The first year hehad no 

 regular coachman, and, if I recollect right, one of the Cracknells 

 was the guard. He drove some coach a few years later. This 

 coach soon collapsed, and in the following year, 1867, the late 

 Edward Sacheverell Chandos-Pole, of Radbourne Hall, Derby- 

 shire, B. J. Angell, usually called 'Cherry Angell,' and I put on 

 a two-end coach on the Croydon and Crawley road to Brighton. 

 Pratt drove from London to Horley and Alfred Tedder from 

 Brighton to Crawley, each taking the coach home from Horley. 

 When any of us travelled by the coach, which was four or five 

 days a week, we always drove. Angell horsed it two stages 

 out of London, I horsed the middle ground three stages, and 

 Chandos-Pole two stages out of Brighton. We had lots of fun 

 and driving ; the coach was very well horsed, and kept good 

 time. There have been many Brighton coaches since ; an 

 American gentleman, Mr. Tiffany, ran for one or two years, and 

 another American, Colonel de Lancey Kane, was a familiar 

 figure on the road. In 1887, Selby's Old Times was put 

 1 It was a three-days-a-week coach from each end. 



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