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Sherman to go into their station with a conveyance 

 for those passengers who had come to Denbigh Hall 

 by the coaches. 



On no other railway, he said, did such an arrange- 

 ment exist. The South Western and Great Western 

 stations were open to any person, and so he sent his 

 coaches to the Great Western as soon as it opened. 



Sherman reckoned that his loss in endeavouring to 

 keep his coaches on had amounted to seven thousand 

 pounds in less than two years after the opening of 

 the railway. 



Thus an extensive business which had been carried^ 

 on prosperously for some twelve or fourteen years 

 was entirely destroyed, or at all events removed from 

 one channel to another, for people still continued to 

 travel. One cannot but see that the loss, so far 

 as Sherinan was concerned, arose in a great measure 

 from his endeavouring to carry things with rather a 

 high hand, and defy the Eailway Company. He 

 seems to have discovered his mistake, as he after- 

 wards adopted a directly opposite course with the 

 Great Western, which resulted in his getting the 

 working of the omnibuses from that station to the 

 bank. 



The palmy days of the old Bull and Mouth may 

 be said to have then terminated. 



I will now take the next person of importance 



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