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قراءة كتاب Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching
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ROAD SCRAPINGS:
COACHES AND COACHING.
LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND.
1882.
ROAD SCRAPINGS:
COACHES AND COACHING.
BY
CAPTAIN M. E. HAWORTH,
AUTHOR OF “THE SILVER GREYHOUND.”
London:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1882.
[All rights reserved.]
INTRODUCTION.
In offering these pages to the public, my object has been confined to imparting such advice, in matters connected with coaching, as has been suggested by long experience; whilst, in order to dissipate as much as possible the “dryness” of being told “what to do” and “how to do it,” I have mingled the instruction with illustrative anecdotes and incidents, which may afford amusement to the general reader. If whilst my bars are “whistling” up the hill, and rattling down, I have been able to combine some useful hints with the amusement often to be discovered in what I have termed “Scrapings of the Road,” my desire will be amply gratified.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. |
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| The revival—Magazine magnificence—Death of coaching—Resurrection—Avoid powder—Does the post pull?—Summering hunters—The “Lawyer’s Daughter”—An unexpected guest | 1 |
CHAPTER II. |
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| Young coachmen—Save your horses—The ribbons—The whip—A professional Jehu—An amateur—Paralysed fingers | 20 |
CHAPTER III. |
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| Anecdotes: Coachmen (friends and enemies)—Roadside burial—Old John’s holiday—How the mail was robbed—Another method—A visit from a well-known character—A wild-beast attack—Carrier’s fear of the supernatural—Classical teams—Early practice with the pickaxe—Catechism capsized | 34 |
CHAPTER IV. |
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| Opposition—A quick change—How to do it—Accident to the Yeovil mail—A gallop for our lives—Unconscious passengers—Western whips—Parliamentary obstruction | 51 |
CHAPTER V. |
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| The “Warwick Crown Prince”—“Spicy Jack”—Poor old Lal!—“Go it, you cripples!”—A model horsekeeper—The coach dines here—Coroner’s inquest—The haunted glen—Lal’s funeral | 65 |
CHAPTER VI. |
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| Commercial-room—The bagman’s tale—Yes—Strange company | 90 |
CHAPTER VII. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Public and private conveyances in Austria and Hungary—An English dragsman posed—The Vienna race-meeting—Gentleman “Jocks”—A moral exemplified | 145 |
CHAPTER X. |
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| North-country fairs—An untrained foxhunter—Tempted again—Extraordinary memory of the horse—Satisfactory results from a Latch-key | 154 |
CHAPTER XI. |
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| 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. |
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| Coaches in Ireland fifty years ago—Warm welcome—Still-hunting—Another blank day—Talent and temper—The Avoca coach | 182 |
CHAPTER XIII. |
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| Virtue and vice—Sowing wild oats—They can all jump—Drive down Box Hill—A gig across country | 195 |
ROAD SCRAPINGS.
Collegisse juvat.