CHAPTER VI. Commercial-room--The bagman's tale--Yes--Strange company 90 CHAPTER VII. Draught horses--The old "fly-waggon"--Weight and pace--Sagacity of mules--Hanging on by a wheel--The Refuge--Hot fighting in the Alps--Suffocation--Over at last--Railway to Paris 104 CHAPTER VIII. Right as the mail--Proprietors and contractors--Guards and coachmen--A cold foot-bath--A lawyer nonsuited--Old Mac--The Spectre Squire--An unsolved mystery 126 CHAPTER IX. Public and private conveyances in Austria and Hungary--An English dragsman posed--The Vienna race-meeting--Gentleman "Jocks"--A moral exemplified 145 CHAPTER X. North-country fairs--An untrained foxhunter--Tempted again--Extraordinary memory of the horse--Satisfactory results from a Latch-key 154 CHAPTER XI. The Coach and Horses (sign of)--Beware of bog spirits--Tell that to the Marines--An early breakfast--Salmon poaching with lights--Am I the man? or, the day of judgment--Acquittal! 168 CHAPTER XII. Coaches in Ireland fifty years ago--Warm welcome--Still-hunting--Another blank day--Talent and temper--The Avoca coach 182 CHAPTER XIII. Virtue and vice--Sowing wild oats--They can all jump--Drive down Box Hill--A gig across country 195 ROAD SCRAPINGS. Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum Collegisse juvat. CHAPTER I. The revival--Magazine magnificence--Death of coaching--Resurrection--Avoid powder--Does the post pull?--Summering hunters--The "Lawyer's Daughter"--An unexpected guest. To their honour be it said, that there are noblemen and gentlemen in the land, who willingly devote time, energy, and money, to keep the dust flying from the wheels of the real old stage coach. The importance of driving well, and the pleasure derivable therefrom, are both enhanced by the moral duty and responsibility involved in directing a public conveyance. The journey once advertised forms a contract which is most religiously observed, and the punctuality and precision noticeable in the coaches of the revival are among their most commendable features.