1 86 THE COACHING AGE.' 



another plau, measures were at once taken to put this 

 one into execution. Some one went to his bed- 

 room, woke him up, and asked if he would take 

 on the coach. He expressed his willingness to do 

 so, dressed himself as expeditiously as he could, 

 went down, and found! the coach and horses ready in 

 the street waiting for him to start. He at once 

 mounted the box and drove up to London into the 

 Bull and Mouth yard, to which place the coach then 

 ran. He was a small, thin young fellow, only about 

 eighteen, and not being a professional coachman had 

 no idea that he would be required to take the coach 

 down again on its way out of London that night, but 

 concluded that some man would' be found to dis- 

 charge the duty. He was, however, requested to 

 undertake it, and drove down to Newbury, fifty-six 

 miles from London, being the place where the coach- 

 man always changed. 



The young man was intended for the medical pro- 

 fession, but from famUy circumstances he abandoned 

 that career, and eventually became a professional 

 coachman. 



For about twelve persons to be sitting upon a 

 ' Monarch ' in the night, in the main street of a large 

 town, without any means of progressing, was not an 

 ordinary occurrence, and the passengers certainly were 

 not ' monarchs of all they surveyed.' 



