Excerpt from Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men: With Revisions, Corrections, and Additions AS we pass toward the gateway, the guard strikes up with the bugle, and makes the place resound with the well-known air, Off, Off, said the stranger. Emerging upon the street, we see, issuing from an opposite gateway, a dozen omnibuses, driven by scarlet-coated coachmen, and laden entirely with scarlet-coated passengers. Each of these men is a general postman, and he is on his way to his beat. AS the vehicle arrives at the most convenient point, he will alight and commence the morning delivery. The process will be repeated in the evening and these two deliveries suffice, then, for all the country correspondence sent to London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.