Ladies and the Cattle 33 Land, Improvement in value of 27 Level, The Great 23 Level, Draining the Great 23 Lock-up Story 43 Mail Coaches 11 Market, Cattle 33 ,, The old 33 „ Wednesday 34 Mere, Whittlesey 19 Mill, The Old 14, 27, 29 Mill system of Draining 25 Mud Case, The 44 Nene Outfall, The 25 Newspapers 38, 39, 40 Newtown 31 Notorious Family, A 17 Oasis in the Desert 21 Packets, River 15 Parish Constables 17 Paston 22 Ponds 31 Poor House 31 Poor Law 30 Post Office 37 Postal Charges 15 Railways 11, 14, 44 Railways and Earl Fitzwilliam 14 Retrospective 45 River Packets 15 Robbery at the Vicarage 43 Sedan Chairs 19 Sexton Barns 29 Smothering the Cathedral 14 Snatched from the Sea 25 Tales of the Coaching days 12 Theatre 17 Toll Gates 9 Tombstone Rhymes 35 Tythe Barn, Boroughbury 31 Value of land improved 27 Whalley, Mr. G. H. 15 Whittlesey Mere 19 PART THE FIRST. CITY TOLL GATES.—HOW TOLL WAS LEVIED.—THE INFIRMARY.—OLD CITY BREWERIES.—THE CALCULATING BOY.—STARTING THE RAILWAYS.—FRISBY’S FEAT.—TALES OF THE COACHING DAYS.—TALLY-HO COACH.—A CONTRAST.—A STORY OF LORD FITZWILLIAM.—SMOTHERING THE CATHEDRAL.—THE OLD MILL.—SIMPSON’S PACKET.—MR. WHALLEY’S JOKE.—POSTAL CHARGES.—FRANKING LETTERS.—THE CITY BEADLE.—PARISH CONSTABLES AND GAOL.—A NOTORIOUS FAMILY.—FAIRS.—CITY BELLS.—SEDAN CHAIRS.—WHITTLESEY MERE.