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Coaching Song , by R.E.E. Warburton , Esq. . `` Now , sir , time to get up , if you please . Tally-ho coach for Leicester 'll be round in half an hour , and do n't wait for nobody . '' So spake the boots of the Peacock Inn Islington , at half-past two o'clock on the morning of a day in the early part of November 183 - , giving Tom at the same time a shake by the shoulder , and then putting down a candle ; and carrying off his shoes to clean . Tom and his father arrived in town from Berkshire the day before , and finding , on inquiry , that the Birmingham coaches which ran from the city did not pass through Rugby , but deposited their passengers at Dunchurch , a village three miles distant on the main road , where said passengers had to wait for the Oxford and Leicester coach in the evening , or to take a post-chaise , had resolved that Tom should travel down by the Tally-ho , which diverged from the main road and passed through Rugby itself . And as the Tally-ho was an early coach , they had driven out to the Peacock to be on the road . Tom had never been in London , and would have liked to have stopped at the Belle Savage , where they had been put down by the Star , just at dusk , that he might have gone roving about those endless , mysterious , gas-lit streets , which , with their glare and hum and moving crowds , excited him so that he could n't talk even .