The Old Inns of Old England; a Picturesque Account of the Ancient And Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country
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The " last " coach-driver, coach-guard, and post-boy, killed off regularly by the newspapers, still survive to witness this new cult of the wheel, and the ulti- mate ostlers of the coaching era, a bit stiff in the joints, shaky at the knees, and generally out of repair, have come forth blinking, from the dark and cavernous recesses of their mouldering stables, all too lai'ge now for the horses that find shelter there, to take charge of the machines of steel and iron and rubber that will carry y...ou infinite dis- tances without fatigue. There are elements of both fun and pathos in 74 THE OLD INNS OF OLD ENGLAND the sight of an old ostler cleaning a muddy bicycle in a coach-yard from which the last coach-horses departed nearly two generations ago. As a boy, he started life in the place as a stable-help, and had scarce finished his novitiate when the railway was opened and the coaches dropped ofp one by one, after vainly appealing to the old-fashioned prejudices of their patrons to shun the trains and still travel by the highways.
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