3i6 stage-coAch And mail in days of yore 



sir : jiimji up, if you please — very late this 

 morning'.' 



" ' Why, where 's the machinery ? ' cries the 

 old one. 



"'There, sir,' replies a passenger (a young 

 Cantah, I suspect), pointing to a heavy trunk 

 of mine that was swung underneath, ' in that 

 box, sir, that's where the machinery works.' 



" ' Ah ! ' quoth the old man, climbing up, 

 quite satisfied : ' wonderful inventions nowadays, 

 sir. We shall all get safe to Brighton : no 

 chance of an accident by this coach.' " 



The Brighton Boad, as already hinted, Avas 

 in many ways exceptional. It had exceptionally 

 many Boyal associations, reflected vividly enough 

 in the names of its coaches. Among these was, 

 of course, the " Prince Begent," started in 1813, 

 but preceded by the " Princess Charlotte," estab- 

 lished a year earlier, and followed by the 

 "Begent," " Boyal George," " Boyal Adelaide," 

 "Boyal Clarence," "Boyal Sussex," "Boyal 

 Victoria," and " Boyal York." 



Later sporting names for coaches than the 

 "Tally-ho's" and the "Highflyers" were such 

 as the "Bang Up," the " Hieover " — surely no 

 prudent person travelled by a coach with a name 

 so suggestive of broken necks — and the " High- 

 mettled Bacer," while the gay young bloods 

 who drove the crack Windsor coach called it, 

 after the first da me use of that time, the 

 " Taglioni." The " Taglioni " was a fast coach, 

 driven by fast men, and had a picture of 



