126 THE COACHING AGE. 



' In fine weather they travel well, but with full loads 

 and heavy roads they decrease in speed, and are no^ 

 punctual like the mails,' 



Both mails and coaches were accelerated in subse- 

 quent years. 



To sum up, it may be said that Chaplin's business 

 was conducted admirably, and he was sufficiently 

 long-sighted to retire from it without losing so much 

 money as many men in the same way of business 

 did ; for when it became clear that coaches must 

 inevitably be superseded by railways, he sold his 

 horses and threw his influence and connection into 

 the railway companies. 



I think I may venture to say that, so far from losing 

 much money, he died a much richer man than he 

 would have done had he continued in the coaching 

 business. 



Having given some account of the largest coach- 

 proprietor, I will now proceed to give one of the 

 man who, I believe, was unquestionably the second. 



Edward Sherman succeeded Willans at the Bull and 

 Mouth in the year 1823. He was said to have been 

 a stockbroker, and how he came to embark in such 

 a totally difi'erent occupation as coaching I cannot 

 explain, but have no doubt the story was correct, as 

 he was frequently to be seen in a tavern adjoining 

 the Stock Exchange, in company with Lewis Levy, the 



