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travelled from London to York by a coach terminating 

 its journey there at an inn from which no coach went 

 farther northward, in which case you would have to 

 go to some other coach-office. 



Among the coaches Sherman found running from the 

 Bull and Mouth when he took to it was one which 

 had been running for some years previously, but when 

 it was originally started I cannot say. It was called 

 the ' Subscription,' from London to Exeter, and was 

 on the road in 1819, at which time it used to take 

 twenty-five hours in performing the journey. Per- 

 haps it is scarcely necessary to add that the coach 

 was of a yellow colour. It was originally started by 

 some sort of subscription, and hence the name. 



I do not fancy that Sherman was a very great 

 favourite with his country partners, as a large coach- 

 proprietor and innkeeper down the North road, who 

 horsed some mails with him, told me they had a 

 difficulty in getting their shares of the earnings, 

 the whole of the mileage for horsing the mails 

 out of London being always paid to the London 

 proprietor, to whom all his partners, including the 

 man at the other end, had to look for payment 

 of their several shares according to the length 

 of ground they covered. He also used to charge 

 his partners in the coaches for straw supplied, I 

 suppose in the winter-time, to assist in keeping the 



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