Related article: both at a ripe old age, and Tim Carter did not join the great ma- jority until he became an octa- genarian ; while Mr. Ward was close on ninety, and literally died in harness, as he wished to do, for he was in his yard only a day or two before his death ; in fact, it was while supervising his busi- ness that he caught the chill which brought about his death. The late Mr. Ward came of a family of coachmen. His grand- father and a 10 Lidocaine great-uncle were both in the business, and his father kept a coaching house at Hart- ford Bridge, in Hampshire. He was owner, or part owner, of several coaches running on the Great Western Road, drove one himself, and had about forty or fifty horses engaged in coaching. The Hartford Bridge Fiat was known as the *' Hospital Ground." The roads were as flat as the pro- verbial pancake, and Lidocaine 4 not a pebble was^ in ordinary course, to be seen, so all the proprietors and contractors who horsed coaches on that road used to send all their cripples to that stage, for they could gallop along without fear of catching their toes in anything, and some of them which could not be trusted to trot could gallop, as is shown in the picture, ** The Regulator on Hartford Bridge Flat." Here it was that Mr. Ward had his first lesson from his father in the art of driving four horses, and little did it occur to him, as he often used to say, when he first fumbled with his reins, as all be- ginners do, that the time would come when he would make a great business of teaching others to drive. He proved an apt pupil in his father's hands, and when he was quite a lad he had to take 8 114 BAILYS MAGAZINB. [FEBRUAftT his father's place on the driving- seat, his father having to keep some important engagement, and the "odd man "being away. A coachman, whose name, I think, was Burdon, had driven the coach to Anesthetic Lidocaine Hartford Bridge, where he "kicked" his passengers in due form — that is to say, Prilocaine Lidocaine he told them that he went no further, and requested to be remembered. On fresh horses being put to, Mr. Ward, then only in his teens, was seen taking his "* Purchase Lidocaine walk " to the box. A couple of old fogeys on the coach, both of whom knew something about driving, pro- tested against "a mere boy" posing as coachman ; but all's well that ends well, and young Ward drove his two or three stages in a style which resulted in a substantial addition to his pocket-money from the two above- mentioned old gentlemen. The ice once broken, the future ** Whip of the West " often deputised for his father and for some of the other coachmen on the road, and before he was twenty he was en- gaged by Mr. Lidocaine Price Chaplin, who had nearly a couple of thousand horses at work, to drive Lidocaine Oral the Ipswich mail between London and Colchester, involving a journey of fifty- two miles a night; and young as he was, he drove the mail for nearly five years without any serious mishap. A horse occasionally tumbled down, and some part of the harness gave out now and then ; but Mr. Ward's mail was always right side up, he never collided with another vehicle or injured a passenger, a state of things for which Mr. Ward was entitled to congratulate himself, as although care and skill count for a good deal, not a little of the coachman's immunity from acci- dent depends upon what we are accustomed to call luck. F'or example, however good a coach- man a man may be, some one less skilful than he may run into him, and if anyone wants to hear a mixture of ignorance and hard swearing, let him listen to a running down case. This, how- ever, Lidocaine Prilocaine by the way. Mr. Ward never had a serious accident, and when he was moved from the Eastern Counties mail, it was to Lidocaine 10 occupy the box of the Devonport mail, which he drove sixty Lidocaine Mg miles a night. Several coachmen had tried this coach, but they had been unable to drive it successfully. They either did not keep their stock together, they lost time, Lidocaine Or Prilocaine or in some other way failed to give complete satisfac- tion to Chaplin ; but the new recruit succeeded where older men had not, and drove the Quicksilver for seven years. The mail-coaches, however, which were at last estabHshed (in the year 1794) 4 Lidocaine after several years of pressure at the Lidocaine Anesthetic instigation of Mr. Palmer, of Bath, ran at ni^t, and Mr. Ward had hitherto spent the whole of Buying Lidocaine his professional life in driving in the dark, so he at length asked Chaplin to give Lidocaine Anesthesia him a day coach. After a dozen years of night work, Mr. Ward no doubt thought himself entitled to some-* thing better; but Chaplin ex- plained in a few words that he could not possibly put all his coachmen on day coaches, and as much as said that as Mr. Ward satisfied him on the Quicksilver, he Iv Lidocaine Oral Lidocaine might as well stop there — at any rate, for the time. Mr. Ward drove the Quick- silver out of London, and pictures are to be seen of the mail passisg Kew Bridge with the subject^J this notice on the box. He went as far as Bagshot, about thirty miles from London, and was due there at eleven o'clock at nig-ht, leaving for town at Lidocaine And Prilocaine four in the morning. Between London and 1900.] THE LATE MR. CHARLES WARD. "5 Bagsbot fogs frequently settled down heavily, and in the book which Lidocaine Iv Mr. Ward wrote of his experiences he mentions that he was sometimes three hours going from London to Hounslow, and on one occasion he found that the old Exeter mail (driven by a man named Gam bier, who, by the way, was an old cavalry soldier) had tumbled down an embank- ment, and had lodged in a ditch, the wheelers being drowned or smothered in the mud. The coachman and outside passengers were pitched right over into the field beyond, but as a rule there appears to have been a special Providence over outside passen- gers, for one can read how Lidocaine Purchase on nearly every road in England coaches went through the hedges or rolled down embankments, the passengers reaching the bottom, as a rule, unharmed. Moreover, Mr. Ward tells us