204 COACHING. 



"Early Times;" and young Musgrave, on the 

 "Union," all of whom " fretted their hour upon 

 the stage." One very great improvement has 

 taken place in the dress of amateur coachmen, 

 whose costume is as different in our day from that 

 of the time when George the Third was king, 

 as the brilliant gas in our streets is from the oily 

 rays that rendered darkness visible in the 

 metropolis. 



So outree was the costume of amateur coach- 

 men early in the present century that it gave 

 rise to innumerable squibs and caricatures. 

 One squib, embodied in a popular song, ran as 

 follows : — 



" On Epsom Downs 



Says Billy, ' Zounds ! 

 That cannot be Lord Jackey. 



Eo;ad, but now 



I see it is, 

 I took liira for his lackey.' " 



Again, Charles Mathews, as Dick Cypher in 

 the farce of " Hit or Miss " caricatured the dress 

 so well that he gave offence to many of the 

 noble whips. 



Grimaldi, the inimitable Joe Grimaldi, also 

 introduced in a Christmas pantomime a scene in 

 which both coaches and coachmen were ridiculed. 



