128 HIGHWAYS AND HORSES. 



of the lono--distance coaches. He never drove a 

 coach, Hke Chaplin, and rarely, if ever, travelled on 

 them himself. He used to drive about the City in 

 a chaise with yellow wheels, in which he drove a 

 fat pony with double reins — evidently for fear it might 

 run away ; this it never offered to do, being extremely 

 docile and quiet. 



There was no appearance of the coachman about 

 Sherman, He had a clean-shaved face, except for a 

 big moustache ; but in manner and appearance it was 

 difficult to believe that he was a man engag-ed in a 

 very extensive business operation, such as coach- 

 proprietor on an enormous scale, or that he was in 

 any way connected with the road or with horses. 



In those days, coach proprietors and those interested 

 in coaching, frequently affected a horsey appearance, 

 which immediately identified them with the road, 

 they wore big fawn-coloured coats of box-cloth, with 

 white pearl buttons, and countless graduated capes 

 like one sees in the old coaching pictures, a blue scarf 

 with white spots enveloped their necks, and as for 

 the hat they wore, it was generally a low-crowned 

 white beaver, Sherman afifected nothinof of this kind ; 

 but, so far as appearance w^ent, looked as though 

 nothinof was further from his thousfhts than horses 

 or coaches, although his capital was invested in 

 them. 



Sherman's coaches carried all the Scotch mails ; 

 he horsed the Edinburgh and Glasgow coaches, he 

 also had a coach called the " Wellington," that ran 

 from London to Newcastle ; he had another coach 

 which was started Ions: before he became connected 

 with coaching — it was called the "Subscription," and 

 ran from London to Exeter ; this coach first com- 



