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of flowers at the breast, resembling the coacb- 

 men of the nobility on a drawing-room or levee 

 day. The popular song of the Whip Club 

 ran as follows, I only remember the first 

 verse : — 



" With spirits gay Ave mouut the box, the tits up to the 



traces, 

 Our elbows squared, our wrists turned down, dash off at awful 



paces ; 

 With Buxton bit, bridoon so trim, three chestnuts and a 



grey- 

 Well coupled up the wheelers then — Ya, hip ! we bowl 



away." 



Many most distinguished men have in our 

 day not thought it derogatory to their dignity 

 to work a public stage-coach, and among them 

 may be mentioned the Marquis of Worcester, 

 father to the present Duke of Beaufort, on the 

 "Evening's Amusement;" and most delightful 

 " amusement" it was to pass an " evening" by 

 the side of the noble Plantagenet. Then there 

 were the Earl of Harborough, on the " Monarch," 

 Sir St. Vincent Cotton, Bart., the ex-lOth 

 Hussar, and Charles Jones, Esq., on " The 

 Age ;" the Honourable Francis Stafford Jerning- 

 ham, on the " Day Mail," Sackville Gwynne, 

 on the "Beaufort;" John Willan, Esq., on the 



