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CHAPTER VI. 



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ROAD LOCOMOTIVES 23 1 



Colonel Maceroni's steam carriages — Mr. Gurney spends ;^ioo,cxx) — 

 Sir Isaac Newton's steam carriage — Reactionary propulsion — 

 Trevithick's and Griffith's steam carriage — Thirty-two to thirty- 

 five miles an hour — The "Era" runs eighteen miles an hour — 

 Steam carriages in and about London — Report of committee of 

 the House of Commons — Eighty-four miles in nine hours and 

 twenty minutes — Opposition to steam carriages — Restrictive 

 acts relating to road locomotives — Discouragement to road 

 locomotion — Electric carriages. 



CHAPTER Vn. 



PAST AND PRESENT — EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES 246 



One hundred years ago — 111 omens — Three-bottle men — Watchmen 

 and Bow Street runners — Signboards — Village stocks — May- 

 poles — Beating the bounds — Dick Turpin — " Stand, and de- 

 liver!" — Collecting — The ducking-stool — The majesty of the 

 law — The last century — Encouraging virtue by exposing vice — 

 Military patrols — An empty boast — An exchange of property— 

 "I merely borrow'' — Turpin's death — A sharp archbishop — 

 "Remove that dangerous weapon" — Tyburn tree — Men of the 

 time — Wars of the last century— Abolition of slavery — Yoho ! 

 — Washington Irving and an English coach — Virgil on driving. 



CHAPTER Vni. 



AMATEUR COACHING 308 



Coach-building and harness-making trades — The Guildford coach 

 — Coaches versus covert-hacks — A harmless pursuit — Do foxes 

 like being hunted ? — Heavy coaches — Light coaches — Holland 

 & Holland — A coach-builder's opinion — Grooms' hands — All 

 should take their share of work — Amateur coachmen— Mad 

 Mytton — The Four-in-hand Club — Mr. Morritt, of Rokeby — 

 The Coaching Club — A professional opinion — Randolph 

 Caldecott — Time-bills — Winter coaches — The "Defiance" 

 coach — The Brighton coach — A sale of coach-horses — The 

 Dorking and Box Hill coach— The " Old Times "—The " Non- 

 pareil"— The "New Times"— The "Defiance"— The "Wonder" 

 — The Brighton coach — Coaching a luxury. 



