NO HORSES, NO COACHMAN. 187 



The task of undertaking to drive the coach in this 

 instance was not so difficult as it might have been 

 in other parts of the country, as the road between 

 Keading and London is so level that there is not 

 anything that can really be called a hill through- 

 out the whole length. It would have been other- 

 wise had a coachman been wanted on the lower 

 ground, where he would have had Marlborough and 

 some other hills to negotiate. The coach, moreover, 

 was a heavy loading one, not travelling at a fast pace, 

 or very strictly limited to time, so that there was not 

 any risk of an upset in consequence of having to go 

 at great speed. 



