i66 THE COACHING AGE. 



together with many other gentlemen who took an 

 interest in coaching. 



Mr. Kenyon was very fond of anything connected 

 with coaching, having his own four-in-hand, but con- 

 stantly driving some of the regular coaches. On one 

 occasion a coachman he knew very well being laid 

 up by illness, Mr. Kenyon volunteered to drive his 

 coach for him till he recovered, which was in the 

 course of three or four weeks, during which time Mr. 

 Kenyon regularly took his fees from the passengers, 

 but handed them all over to the coachman, so that he 

 ^yas not any loser by his temporary absence from the 

 box. 



Some of Mrs. Nelson's guards wore red coats ; in 

 such cases it was the etiquette to appear at dinner in 

 them. And it was a rule not to address each other 

 by their proper names, but by the name of the road 

 on which a man worked ; thus one man -vt^ould be 

 addressed as ' Exeter,' another as ' Norwich,' and 

 so on. 



Many of the guards were first-rate performers on 

 the key-bugle, and it was by no means an unusual 

 thing for Mrs. Nelson to ask one of them — perhaps 

 the one going out with the next coach — to play in 

 the yard for a time for the amusement of herself and 

 customers. 



A most active and energetic woman^ she seems 



