2i6 THE COACHING AGE. 



the " Conservative," which was then the Opposition, 

 and has been kept on the road through Beaconsfield 

 ever since. 



* The difficulty of starting this new coach has been 

 considerable, one or two other professionals having 

 been employed in the first instance to make all the 

 preliminary arrangements, it having been understood 

 that Merry Pebbles had cut his stick, and expressed 

 his intention not to go on the road again. 



' It appearing, however, that the coach could not be 

 started without him, his advice and assistance were 

 urgently solicited, and eventually he was induced to 

 resume his old position and take the reins in hand 

 again. Accordingly he set to work, and having got 

 some of his teams together, put them into their 

 places, and worked them down on a trial trip to 

 Windsor. They were taken down there by train, 

 when it was found there was no coach ready to put 

 them into, and they had to be walked from the 

 station. 



' There have been several interviews and meetings 

 submitting them for approval, and it is understood 

 that the teams are approved, and the several places in 

 which they are to work definitely settled. Having 

 been selected with great care and judgment, and 

 many of them having been in harness and done 

 a good deal of hard work before, it is not anticipated 



