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time the name came to signify a hired horse, 

 and we have evidence that the " Hackney 

 man," or job master, kept an exceedingly 

 good stamp of animal. 



The word "Hackney" having come to 

 mean a horse that could be hired, by one 

 of those curious perversions of language 

 brought about by popular usage, t it was 

 applied to means of conveyance, other than 

 horses, that could be hired, and thus in 1605 

 we hear for the first time of "hackney" 

 coaches, and in 1634 of "hackneys" chairs.^ 



ROADSTERS OF THE COACHING PERIOD. 



In the early coaching and posting days, as 

 has been shown in the preceding pages, the 

 roadster was an absolute necessity ; and 

 universal and continuous demand naturally 

 produced on the spot a supply of horses 

 in which soundness of constitution and limb, 

 speed and endurance were indispensable. 



In no part of England was more attention 



t A good example of this suggests itself in the 

 word " collie," which originally meant a sheep ; dogs 

 used by shepherds being called " collie dogs," i.e., 

 " sheep dogs," in time became known as " collies " ; 

 whence what -was properly the name of a sheep is 

 now become that of a dog. 



X Early Carriages and Roads, by Sir Walter Gilbey, 

 Bart. (Vinton and Co., Ltd., 1903.) 

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