State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-02-29

lodgings, and they scarcely ever go
one rod out Of their way TO take you
up. For example; if you want TO
leave London for Edinburgh, at
seven o'clock in the morning, you
must be at the coach Office with
your baggage, little before the time ;
so that every thing may be in read
mess the moment the clock strikes.
If you are tardy only one or two
minutes, you may return to your
clearinghouse at your leisure; and
wait for the next chance. And il
you mean to get a good seat, you
must take it, or lay your clock upon
it, the moment the coach drives up
to the door of the office. Judging
from my own experience, it does
very little good to engage a seat
beforehand. Be on the ground
soon enough to lay your over coat
where you wish TO sit, and nobody
will think of supplanting you during
the whole journey. This system is
attended with inconvenience but
it has its advantage also. If nobody
waits for you, you wait for nobody !;
and, as | have already remarked,
you are morally certain of reaching
anv given place at the hour.
The English coachmon form a
class by themselves, and | am in
clined to think quite respectable
class. With hardly any exceptions,
| found them civil and intelligent.
1t is true, they are little apt to re-
gard themselves as the principal
personages on board circum-
stance, however, which need not
greatly disquiet you, SO long as they
do their duty well, and keep every
thing right side up. After being in
the country few weeks, you can
hardly mistake one Of these sons of
Nlmshi, wherever you happen to
meet him. His broad-brimmed hat
his drab- colored quaker. like coat
and small clothes-his white topped
boots, his air, his goodly latitudinaI
capacity, and his plump weather.
beaten face, all tell you to what cast
he belongs, with almost unerring
certainty.
Once mounted upon his neat, we'll
cushioned throne. the ENGLISH
coachman has right to stay there,
if he pleases, from Manchester to
London; and wo be to the poor
coal HEAVIER, market, boy, or donkey
hat happens TO be in the right
line of his driving. When he comes
up to the hotel the relay of horses
stands ready harnessed in the mid
die of the street, and he looks down
upon his subjects, the grooms, with
a complacent smile, for the moment
which it requires to take off and
hitch on, when the sharp crack an
1ounces that the measure Of the
next ten miles is begun. When
.hese coordinate sovereigns meet,
IS they needs often must, they ex-
change salutations, very significant
|y, by raising the elbow at a sharp
angle, and turning out towards each
other. The omission fthis august
would be regarded as af-
(ordlng sufficient cause for COM
plete non intercourse, if not for abb
solute reprlsals. In passing one
another, upon the road, all kinds of
vehicles in Great Britain turn to
The left and not to the right, as we
10. At first, ! thought this left-ban-
led philosophy of theirs, was wrong
md | was beginning to congratulate
ny country upon her advantage
over them in this particular, when ,
perceived in passing the next coach I,
heir left hand is decidedly safer
han our right, as it brings both the |
,oachmen on that side, where the /
LANCER of collision lies, and enables
hem better to avoid it. Aiemoran-
lum. Often when we are quite sure
hat our way is the best, and wonder
1t the awkwardness of other people
hey have more reason for differing
rom us, than we have of differing
rom them. The length of each
.oachman's route, is from forty to
ixty miles; and when he resigns
lis seat to his portly brother, he adj
ances up to you and touches his
lat with the tip of his fore-fnger,
which means, "a shilling sir If
'ou give him less, he comes to
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