INDEX. 



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BIB 



Carts and Coaches, 29 ; 

 Under the Sun, 50 ; see also 

 Bibliography, 398-404 



' Big legs,' 66 



Bird's-nest built in coach, 266 



' Bishoping,' 69 



Bits, 89, 102, 117, 133, 146 



Bitting, 2 



Blindness, 66 



Blinkers, 97 



Blistering, 66 



Blue Coach Office, Brighton, 237 



Bog-spavin, 66 



Bone-spavin, 66 



Box-seat, formation of the, 9 



Box-seat, observations from the, 

 218 ; pleasures of travelling 

 by stage-coaches, 219 ; cha- 

 racters of coachmen, 219 ; 

 boyish reminiscenses, 219 ; 

 accident with the Devonport 

 mail, 220 ; the lioness at 

 Winterslow Hut, 220 ; the 

 runaway mail and the French- 

 man, 221 ; accident to Jack 

 Adams on the Oxford De- 

 fiance, 221 ; well-known 

 coachmen, 223 ; accident to 

 Luke Tabor, 224 ; unlucky 

 Johnson, 224 ; suicide of 

 Charles Holmes, 225 ; Ned 

 Mountain's bedtime, 226 ; 

 Billy Barrett's politeness, 226 ; 

 Saunders's rheumatism, 227 ; 

 how Tommy Waters missed 

 the mail, 228 



Breaks, 6, 7, 102-104, 127, 132, 



35 6 391 



Breaking-in, 138, 152 



Breeches, 312 



Breechings, 92, 97, 154 



Brighton road the coach 

 offices in Castle Square, 

 Brighton, 229 ; Goodman's 



BRU 



Times, 229, 230; the late 

 Duke of Beaufort's tiff with 

 Goodman, 230 ; an old-style 

 hotel coffee-room, 230 ; the 

 Duke and Alexander's oppo- 

 sition to Goodman, 230 ; the 

 Wonder and Quicksilver, 231 ; 

 accident to the Quicksilver, 

 231 ; the Criterion, 232 ; Bob 

 Pointer's one infirmity, 232 ; 

 a flogging schoolmaster, 232- 



236 ; a flight from school and 

 recapture, 234 ; Stephenson's 

 Age, 236 ; various routes to 

 Brighton, 236 ; the old Blue 

 Coach office, 237 ; the White 

 Coach office, 237 ; the Red 

 Rover, 237 ; a gale of wind, 



237 ; James Adlam's venture, 



238 ; George Clark and the 

 Age, 238 ; a young coach- 

 man's tips, 239, 240; stages 

 of the Age to and from 

 Brighton, 240 ; Captain Ha- 

 worth and the New Times, 

 241 ; other coaches, 241 ; see 

 Roads 



Bristol and Bath road to Lon- 

 don, 242 ; the York House 

 coach, 242 ; qualities of 

 Ad lam and Sprawson as 

 coachmen, 242 ; routes to 

 Bath, 243 ; the Quicksilver, 

 Em< raid, and Regulator, 243 ; 

 rigours of coach-travelling, 

 243 ; deficiencies in travelling 

 coats and comforts, 244 ; 

 Mrs. Botham, of the Pelican 

 hotel, Speenhamland, 244 



Britzskas, 46 



Broken- wind, 65 



Broughams, 46, 106, 110-112, 



364, 383 

 Brushes, 84, 107 



