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Part of a considerable yard at the back of Mrs. 

 Mountain's premises was converted into a coach- 

 maker's shop, and she built some of her coaches, letting 

 them out to the partners with whom she worked, and 

 charging a mileage for them. She reckoned that she 

 could build a good comfortable stage-coach for a 

 hundred and ten or twenty guineas, and let this to the , j 

 company at threepence half-penny a mile. Her 

 establishment in horses consisted of about two 

 hundred, and her principal coaches were the ' Eock- 

 ingham ' to Leeds, and one of the ' Tally Ho's ' to 

 Birmingham, known by way of distinction as ' Moun- 

 tain's Tally Ho.' 



It was an old-established business, having been 

 carried on, before Mrs. Mountain took to it in 1818, 

 by her husband, and earlier still by his father. Like 

 Sherman, Mrs. Mountain kept some of her coaches on 

 the road as long as she could, and ran the ' Prince 

 of Wales,' a night- coach, to Bristol, in conjunction 

 with other persons, after all the other coaches had 

 been taken off; but ultimately that had to succumb. 



I now come to the last of the London coach -pro- 

 prietors who had a mail, Eobert Nelson, of the Bell 

 Savage, or Belle Sauvage, as it was spelt both ways 

 on the business advertisements, bills and papers, and 

 painted on the coaches. He had only one mail, the 

 London and Norwich, through Newmarket and 



