134 STAGE-COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE 



door, and adjoins the modern Hallway Goods 

 Receiving Office of the " Swan with Two Necks," 

 built on the site of the old coaching establishment 

 of Chaj^lin's. 



Never was such a man for improving maxims 

 as Joseph Baxendale. He was a great admirer 

 of Poor Richard^ s Almanack and its racy maxims, 

 written by Daniel Webster, and carefully caused 

 a broadsheet containing a selection of them to be 

 printed . He also tried his OAvn hand at composing 

 pithy sentences on the virtues of j^^mctuality and 

 method, and caused leaflets of these, together 

 with Foor Richard's homely literature, to be 

 circulated and posted in all conspicuous places 

 in the establishments of Pickford & Co. in London 

 and the provinces, and on the roads and canals 

 where his vans travelled or his fly-l)oats voyaged. 

 Here is one of his compositions in this way : — 



METHOD is the very Hinge of Business; and 

 there is no Method without Punctuality. 

 Punctuality is important, because it subserves the 

 Peace and good Temper of a Eamily : The want 

 of it not only infringes on necessary Duty, but 

 sometimes excludes tliis Duty. The Calmness of 

 Mind Avhicli it produces, is another Advantage 



