rso THE COACHING AGE. 



very common at the present time — he wore a mous- 

 tache, but not a beard. 



If you saw a yellow coach in London, you might 

 venture (although not sufficiently near to see the 

 lettering on it) to predict that it was one of 

 Sherman's ; but if you could only get a glimpse 

 of its shape there could no longer be the slightest 

 doubt, as his coaches, some of which belonged to him, 

 were built on a model totally different from any 

 other coaches running out of London, being quite of 

 the old-fashioned shape, such as you might see among 

 the cross-country coaches on some roads a long way 

 from town. 



Sherman was the next largest mail-coach proprietor 

 to Chaplin, and although covering only half the ground 

 he did, had the very important mails carrying all the 

 Scotch correspondence, as he horsed the Edinburgh 

 and the Glasgow, also the Leeds, the Halifax con- 

 jointly with Chaplin, and the Worcester and Exeter, 

 making six altogether, and the total number of miles 

 172. He had also the 'Wellington,' a coach running 

 direct from London to Newcastle, and therefore taking 

 a good deal of Scotch traffic, being the only road- 

 coach that ran through for so long a distance. Other 

 coaches there were on the same road, but running as 

 far as York only, where a change of coaches took place, 

 and perhaps of inns, too, if it happened that you 



