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two coaches a day, nearly always full inside and 

 out, soon mounted up to a considerable sum. 

 One man I knew had, in the days of coaching, 

 upwards of three thousand pounds in a bank, 

 made, I believe, while he was a guard ; but it all 

 went, he himself going into the Fleet Prison when 

 the money had been wasted in extravagance of 

 various kinds. That he was on a good coach may 

 be known from the fact that there would be some- 

 times seventy or eighty pounds on his way-bill before 

 going out of the yard in London. As the coach went 

 a long distance, the charges for parcels made up a 

 large amount, in addition to the fares of the 

 passengers. 



Some idea may be formed of the fees guards 

 were in the habit of receiving, from an instance 

 which occurred on a coach running to a town not 

 more than a hundred and forty miles from London, 

 A young gentleman, who was a passenger to 

 London, was furnished, as it was supposed, with 

 ample means for paying the coachman and guard, so 

 he was very liberal to the latter during the journey, 

 treating him to divers glasses of brandy and water, 

 together with many cigars. On his arrival in 

 London, the young gentleman, evidently totally 

 ignorant as to what was about the proper sum to 

 give the guard, -offered him a sovereign, at which, 



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