Regency Travel: The Road Game

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We shared the game for passengers of a carriage, travelling piquet, but coachmen had their own game up on the box called the “Road Game”:

till it cooled was but half way through his dinner when it was announced that the coach was ready for starting What was called the road game was a source of great amusement It was generally played by the coachman and the person sitting beside him They first tossed for the choice of which side of the road they would have then each counted what was met on his side A donkey counted seven a pig one a black sheep one a cat five a cat in a window ten a dog one a magpie one a grey horse five and there was one thing by which the game at once but this was of rare occurrence I cannot venture to describe it but can imagine the roars of laughing and the shouts of game's up when such a thing actually took place was won Coaching, past and present, 1885

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