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the perfection of neatness, one of Adams's* 

 best — body yellow, slightly picked out with 

 black ; under carriao^e black ; two servants in 

 plain liveries behind four spicy nags — three 

 greys and a chestnut — each ready to leap 

 through his collar, put together with skill 

 and working beautifully. The driver is evi- 

 dently a first-rate artist, a perfect master of 

 the science. See how well he has his team 

 in hand! He is every inch a coachman. Our 

 turnpike-man brightens up and, dofl&ng his 

 hat respectfully, exclaims, 



" Now, that's what I like to see — a gentle- 

 man patronising the road ! He's a right 

 regular and right honourable trump, and no 

 mistake !" 



And no mistake was there, for the driver 

 was John Warde. A fashionable equestrian 

 now rides by, 



" With heel insidious by the side 

 Provokes the caper which he seems to chide ;" 



and a " galloping snob" of Eotten Eow, since 

 immortalised in song, follows him. Half a 

 dozen spring-vans decorated with flags and 



* Adams, now Hooper, Victoria Street. 



