i84 REMINISCENCES OF 



several Lord- Lieutenants". Prince Christian, the 

 Ranger of Windsor Forest, reserved a space for the 

 Four-in-Hand Club. I hired a team of black horses 

 from Nightingale at Streatham (they were capital good 

 ones, and Macclesfield had driven them to Ascot 

 Races), and sent them on to Hounslow. Our party, 

 I think, was Edward Harman, Fay, Frances Atkinson, 

 Harry Erskine, Kit and Rosie. There were not many 

 coaches went down. I think Aveland and Fred 

 Villiers. 



After the review coming home in the dark was 

 an awful job — the crowd on the road, the troops, the 

 bands, the row. My horses pulled like demons, my 

 fingers were sore and my arms ached. I drove all 

 the way with my foot on the reins, but we got 

 through without any grief. 



30th June. — Mary Baird's wedding. I asked her 

 who was going to marry her, and suggested Jack 

 Russell. She desired me to ask him, and he came 

 up to stay at Mrs. Baird's. Next morning when he 

 came down to breakfast he said, " When I left home 

 I desired Mary to put up my Sunday coat, but she 

 has made a mistake, and put up my hunting one " 

 (it was a long frock coat, made of rough cloth). He 

 looked at the sleeve, and said, " Never mind ; it's a 

 black one ". 



The wedding was to take place at St. Peter's. I 

 walked there with him and went into the vestry. A 

 curate pulled off the hunting coat and squeezed him 

 into a cassock, then put something round his neck, 

 and something hanging down behind. He said, 



