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they do now when a coach is leaving the White 

 Horse Cellar. By civility and attention to his 

 passengers, and using his interest among his own 

 connection and friends, the coachman succeeded in 

 re-establishing the coach in public favour,, places in 

 it being booked sometimes two or three weeks before- 

 hand, and being always full up and down. 



As the coachman drove from Bath till he met the 

 down-coach, the only chance he had of getting 

 his dinner was while the passengers were getting 

 theirs at Marlborough, where the coach stopped 

 twenty-five minutes for that purpose. 



During this short time, however, the way-bill 

 which he had received from the down-coachman was 

 to be looked through, so he generally got the 

 landlord to read it to him while he was eating his 

 dinner. 



Eventually, and mainly through this coachman, the 

 coach got into a very prosperous condition, the 

 proprietors sharing about six guineas a mile, while his 

 own place, though rather a hard one, was lucrative, 

 as he had two sets of passengers a day (and every 

 day, for the coach ran on Sundays), and worth about 

 twenty pounds a week ; but out of this he paid 

 something to his guard, whose weekly wages did 

 not amount to much, as he received a good deal 

 in the way of tips. The rail, which floored all the 



