CELEBRATED WHIPS. 



Horace writes : — 



" Tandem parcas insane ;" 



and to those who driv^e this danorerous vehicle 

 the followiDg line may not be inappro- 

 priate : — 



" Tandem discedere campis admonuit." 



In addition to the above classical names, 

 there were, early in the present century, hun- 

 dreds of wdiips who raised the character of 

 coachmen to the highest pinnacle of fame. Let 

 me instance : — 



Richard Vaughan, of the Cambridge " Tele- 

 graph," ' scientific in horseflesh, unequalled in 

 driving ;' Pears, of the Southampton day 

 coach ; Wood, Liley, Wilcocks, and Hayward 

 of the "Wonder," between London and Shrews- 

 bury ; Charles Holmes, of the Blenheim coach ; 

 Izaac Walton, the Maecenas of whips, tlie 

 Braham of the Bath road; Jack Adams, the 

 civil and obliging pastor, who taught the young 

 Etonians to drive; Bramble, Faulkner, Dennis, 

 Cross, and others, all of whom have long since 

 departed this life. 



Many professional stage-coachmen were men 

 of erood education. Indeed, not a few had 



