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thenceforward devote his money, his talents, and what 

 he was pleased to call his mind to the more congenial 

 pursuits of hunting and mail-coach driving), the 

 famous Nimrod and Jehu, who drove a mail-coach for 

 so many years to so much admiration. The family, 

 though settled in Kent, was of * horsey ' Yorkshire by 

 origin, and the elder of this noble pair, having been 

 twice married (the second time to an heiress), died in 

 1775, leaving one son (and, if there be no mistake, a 

 great many daughters), known in sporting circles as 

 ' glorious John.' The younger of the noble pair, the 

 said < glorious John,' was born in 1753, and died in 

 1838. He was High Sheriff of Kent, M. F. H., and 

 is commemorated by admiring chroniclers as an un- 

 failing attendant, almost to the day of his death, at 

 Messrs. Tattersall's ' Monday dinners,' at which he 

 would distinguish himself by his manner of tossing off 

 the contents (port wine) of a silver fox-head, holding 

 nearly a pint and precluding * heel-taps,' at the end 

 of a banquet (whereat much other liquor had been 

 ' punished '), and then rising ' steady as a rock ' and 

 refusing, in the small hours of the morning, to leave 

 ' until he had gone up to the drawing-room to bid 

 Mrs. Tattersall good-night ' (much to the dismay and 

 dread, no doubt, of the worthy lady, who would, pro- 

 baby, have dispensed gladly with the alarming cere- 

 mony and questionable compliment). The Warde 

 Arabian is not quite unknown in the pedigrees ; and, 

 according to Bruce's American Stud Book, the elder 



