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IV.— THE BRIGHTON ROAD. 



A PECULIAR flavour of the Regency lingers about the 

 record of the Brighton Road. It is a record, as I read 

 it, of bucks, with stupendous stocks, and hats with brims 

 weirdly curly, casting deathly glances at lone maidens 

 perambulating haplessly by the wayside ; a record of 

 " The Fancy," as I see it drawn for me in the classic 

 pages o{ Boxiajia — thronging in their thousands, and in 

 almost as many different kinds of conveyances to witness 

 one of the many great battles decided on Crawley Down 

 or Blindley Heath ; a record finally of the great George 

 himself, repairingto the health resort which his royal pene- 



