Excerpt from The Golden Bait, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Now, townspeople, as a rule, are quite as fond of seeing the coach come in in style, as the coach man is of driving it in style; and if any town had reason to be proud of its coach, Newark had, though it only changed horses there, and went away to rumble through the whole of the night, and half the following day, until it got to Berwick. That made no difference. The coach was their coach; it was always spoken of as our coach, and as a matter of principle the townsfolk stood up for it, and would not permit a word to be said against it on any terms. And there it was drawn up at the Castle - the fastest long-stage coach in England, the best horsed coach, and a coach as little liable to accidents as any coach that was ever built. 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.