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id: 42948
author: Hunt, Leigh
title: Coaches and Coaching
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  Are they comparing themselves with the unofficial cobbler; thinking of what they shall have for dinner to-morrow; or what they were about six years ago; or that their lot is the hardest in the world, as insipid old people are apt to think, for the pleasure of grumbling; or that it has some advantages nevertheless, besides fees; and that if they are not in bed, their wife is? Of characters, or rather varieties among watchmen, we remember several. His tenderness to descending old ladies is particular.


id: 44864
author: Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom)
title: Coaching Days & Ways
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  Adam Beck's prize for 'Best coach and appointments and quickest change of teams': the change was accomplished in forty-eight seconds. After coaches began to carry the mails, accidents grew more numerous.


id: 45372
author: Haworth, M. E. (Martin E.)
title: Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching
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  It is a pretty sight to see a team of coach horses at a roadside change prepared and turned round, each one listening anxiously for the horn which proclaims the arrival of the coach, and the commencement for them of a ten-mile stage, which may have to be done perhaps in fifty-two minutes, with a heavy load, woolly roads, and the wind behind. Many horses working in the coaches of the present day have occupied very creditable places in the hunting-field, and, should they return thither, will be found none the worse for having been summered in a stage-coach.


id: 43093
author: Lennox, William Pitt, Lord
title: Coaching, with Anecdotes of the Road
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  Here, then, were ten hours consumed each day in travelling twenty-seven miles, and nearly two days in performing what was afterwards done under six hours by the Defiance and other coaches. Having dwelt at considerable length upon stage coaches and stage coachmen, I now turn to amateurs who have distinguished themselves on the box, and who were perfectly competent to take the reins in the event of an accident to the regular driver.


id: 43895
author: Corbett, Edward
title: An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving
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  But if care is necessary in the case of gentlemen's work, what must have been that required with coach horses--especially if running over long stages, with heavy loads and in hot weather. The general establishment of mail coaches took place in the spring of 1788.


id: 37272
author: Earle, Alice Morse
title: Stage-coach and Tavern Days
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summary:
  This well-built, fine old house, shown on page 47, is a good specimen of the better class of old taverns. In the chapter on Signs and Symbols, many names and descriptions are given of old Philadelphia taverns.


