An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving

Name: An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving
Author: Corbett, Edward

Corbett, Edward

Coaching (Transportation); Driving of horse-drawn vehicles

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    [Illustration: J. Sturgess del. et lith.    M&N. Hanhart imp.
                   WYLE COP. SHREWSBURY. A MINUTE TO 12.]

AN OLD COACHMAN'S CHATTER

WITH SOME

Practical Remarks on Driving.

BY

A SEMI-PROFESSIONAL,

EDWARD CORBETT,

_Colonel late Shropshire Militia_.

_With Eight full-page Illustrations on Stone, by_

JOHN STURGESS.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.

1890.

[_The right of Translation and all other rights reserved._]

TO

MY QUONDAM PASSENGERS

OF

DAYS GONE BY

I Venture to Dedicate this Volume,

THANKING THEM FOR THEIR FORMER SUPPORT

AND

HOPING FOR THEIR KIND PATRONAGE

OF

THIS LITTLE BOOK.

CONTENTS.

                                                                   PAGE

  INTRODUCTION                                                        1

  CHAPTER I.
  THE ROYAL MAILS                                                     9

  CHAPTER II.
  THE ROYAL MAILS (_continued_)                                      25

  CHAPTER III.
  ACCIDENTS                                                          48

  CHAPTER IV.
  COMBATING WITH SNOW, FOGS, AND FLOODS                              65

  CHAPTER V.
  NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN                                          75

  CHAPTER VI.
  HORSES                                                             80

  CHAPTER VII.
  THE ROADS                                                          96

  CHAPTER VIII.
  A SCIENTIFIC CHAPTER                                              104

  CHAPTER IX.
  A NOTE ON THE HORN                                                120

  CHAPTER X.
  THE HOLYHEAD ROAD                                                 125

  CHAPTER XI.
  THE BRIGHTON ROAD                                                 140

  CHAPTER XII.
  EARLY DAYS                                                        152

  CHAPTER XIII.
  OLD TIMES                                                         162

  CHAPTER XIV.
  COACHMEN: WHERE DID THEY COME FROM                                169

  CHAPTER XV.
  GUARDS                                                            186

  CHAPTER XVI.
  WHERE DID THEY ALL GO TO?                                         192

  CHAPTER XVII.
  SOME CHARACTERS                                                   196

  CHAPTER XVIII.
  MONOTONY                                                          205

  CHAPTER XIX.
  TANDEM                                                            209

  CHAPTER XX.
  THE CONVICT SHIP                                                  224

  CHAPTER XXI.
  DRIVING                                                           235

  CHAPTER XXII.
  DRIVING (_continued_)                                             253

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An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving

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