XIV 

 COACHING IN CEYLON 



Ye gentlemen of England, who sit at home at ease, 

 How little do ye think upon the perils of the seas — 



wrote one of the gallants of Charles the 

 Seconds court when tumbUng about in 

 Monk's squadron off the Doggerbank. I 

 might paraphrase him, and say, how little 

 the British coaching man, comfortably en- 

 sconced on box or brake-seat of the "Old 

 Times" or ''Comet," thinks upon the 

 miseries which the so-called coaches in many 

 of our colonies inflict upon their unwilling 



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