ISO THE COACHING AGE. 



the horses being no longer strained by the weight, will certainly 

 benefit you, and certainly us by the possession. 



Our plan is as follows : 



We intend to meet the coach at the top of Dashwood Hill, 

 with a close tilted van and four horses ; one of us will seize the 

 guard with a pistol at him, and a second will bring the c.oachman 

 down if he dares move. As their assistance will be of great 

 service to us in unloading, they will not receive the least injury, 

 provided they are quiet. You will have the kindness to tell the 

 Welsh rabbits on their calling that they may depend on every 

 attention being paid to their provisions. 

 With every respect and esteem, 



Believe us. 



Yours most affectionately. 



Tuesday night. 



We trust you will not be offended or hurt by the postage being 

 paid, which we do from the kindest motives. 



Various were the modes which coach-proprietors 

 adopted for bringing their coaches under the notice of 

 the public, the employment of sandwich-men being 

 one method resorted to ; thus you woujd frequently 

 see a man with a large board back and front of him, 

 parading up and down Fleet Street, Cheapside, or 

 some other principal thoroughfare in the City, with 

 the announcement of a coach which had just been 

 started ; one that had changed proprietors, being 

 removed, perhaps, from the Belle Sauvage, on Ludgate 

 Hill, to the Bull and Mouth, St. Martin's le Grand; 

 or else one the fares of which had been considerably 

 reduced. The City was not so crowded in those days, 

 and the sandwich-men could loiter along without 



