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older coacli-liorn regained and still retains its 

 ancient ascendency. Those other instrnments and 

 all their j)ossibilities are left to modern heanf easters 

 and Bank-holiday merrymakers, Avho, as the 

 suhnrhan Londoner knows only too Avell, do not 

 fail to take fnll advantage of them. 



What became of the stage-coach guards ? 

 Some of them were killed, and thus never experi- 

 enced the bitterness of finding their occuj)ation 

 gone. There is an inscription in the churchyard 

 at Great Driffield, Yorkshire, to one who ended 

 thus : — 



TO THE MEMORY OF 



THOMAS RUSSELL, 



Guard of the " Wellington," who lost his life by 



the Coach being unfortunately overturned at 



Nafferton, September 9th, 1825. 



Aged 36 years. 



on Tomb Stones are but vainly sjient ; 

 A Man's Good Name is his best jMpnunient. 



Tliis Stone was erected by his Companions in Friendship. 



Less noticed by gossips on old coaching days than 

 the coachmen were, their ending is more ol)SCure, 

 but it may be supposed that, like those occupants 

 of the box-seat, many of them settled down as 

 landlords of small inns in towns they had known 

 when they travelled the road. 



