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and once a fortnight at that of the other half-customer 

 at Chertsey ; and never did he forget this arrangement, 

 which lasted several years, or stop unnecessarily, when 

 he once thoroughly understood the rule." 



THE COACH HORSE. 



Familiar as this phrase is now, it is one of modern 

 date. It was not until the reign of Elizabeth, that 

 coaches were used ; but the fashion which then came in, 

 soon spread. These vehicles were, however, heavy and 

 unwieldy, and the rate of travelling was as slow as 

 might be supposed from their clumsiness and that of 

 the horses which drew them. When King George n. 

 died, in 1760, the Duke of Devonshire reached home 

 from Chatsworth in Derbyshire, in three days j but a 

 fourth, and even a fifth day passing, without the arrival 

 of the Duke of Rutland, who had not to travel so far 

 by thirty miles, the Speaker of the House of Commons 

 apologized for him by stating, that the former came at a 

 prodigious rate, not less, he said, than fifty miles a 

 day ! 



