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Gloucester Coffee House, or one to see them pass 

 through Kensington turnpike-gate, when each horse 

 having settled to his collar, the cortege glided by, 

 smooth as a vessel in still water. But I am writing 

 of things which, admitting I have seen, might cause 

 the youth of to-day to ask me if I remember the 

 colour of Koah's Ark. 



It is little use saying, that some coaches were so 

 celebrated for their teams, that the owners constantly 

 sold out different matched pairs to go into gentle- 

 men's hands for their carriages ; and this was an item 

 in the money-making way in coaching long since 

 gone by. I will say, alas ! that it is so, though the 

 expression may cause me to be hissed two-fold by 

 all the locomotives between Berwick and the Laud's 

 End, Dover, and Liverpool. Fair enough, too ; for 

 years back, though change of public taste and a love 

 of novelty might have prevented locomotives from 

 being, in technical term, "hissed off*^ the stage, 

 they certainly would have been hissed from every 

 stage or mail that came near them. However, they 

 are established, and I suppose (to indulge in a little 



