Coaching Days and Coaching Ways (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Coaching Days and Coaching WaysBill posting was in its infancy in the days Of the Restoration, but the above effort drew a crowd to the Bell Savage even at five O'clock in the morning. This crowd eyed the Flying Machine, drawn up in the inn yard ready for its ¿ight, with a wild surmise. With a kindred expression they also eyed the Six intrepid passengers who had been received into it, and their fourteen pounds Of luggage to each man piled on the roof - that roof on which no passenger dared venture himself for fear Of his neck. And the six inside intrepid passengers turned Upon the onlookers twelve eyes estranged and sad. They were practised travellers all Of them, but even for practised travelling this was a new departure. They had booked for Bath, with a proper regard for the proviso in the advertisement, they had committed themselves to Providence but they did not very well know whither they were going. They knew however that they were going five-and-thirty miles a day instead Of twenty, over roads called so out of courtesy, and the thought, now that they were seated, gave them melancholy pause. They felt probably as the passengers by the first railway train felt a century and a half later. They cursed the curiosity which pines for a new experience, and wished themselves on the fixed earth again. And as they did so the huzzas of the crowd and a supernatural jolting told them they were Off it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.