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journey, and they would not be aware that his name 

 was not on the bill, hence the possibility of the 

 guard's pocketing the entire sum. 



Somehow or other the circumstance became known 

 to the last coachman, to whom Jenks declined to 

 hand over any portion of the plunder ; and eventually 

 an account of the whole proceeding reached Chaplin's 

 ears. Jenks was sent for, and the case being fully 

 proved against him — or it would perhaps be more 

 correct to say, he having no means of controverting 

 the charge, as Chaplin said to him : "' You have not 

 only robbed your masters, but you have robbed your 

 fellow-servant as well ' — he was, of course, dis- 

 missed. 



The occasional receipt of small sums from passengers 

 for short distances, and not putting them on the bill, 

 might be considered a custom tacitly assented to by 

 the proprietors ; as on a coach running a hundred 

 miles or more, where there was plenty of room, no 

 notice would be taken of a passenger being occa- 

 sionally carried a few miles and putting two shillings 

 or half-a-crown into the pocket of the coachman 

 and guard, if there was one. Such a course rendered 

 their situations worth more pecuniarily, and induced 

 them to discharge their duties in a satisfactory 

 manner. 



At coaching dinners, when the proprietors used to 



