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CHAPTER XIV. 



A MONG the amateur knights of the whip of 

 -^ bygone days, though still remembered b}' 

 many of the present generation, may be men- 

 tioned the late Duke of Beaufort, the Earls of 

 Chesterfield and Harborough, Lords Poltimore, 

 Grantley, and Suffield, Colonel the Honourable 

 Lincoln Stanhope, the Honourable Fitzroy 

 Stanhope, Sir St. Vincent Cotton, Sir Henr}- 

 Peyton, Captains Angerstein and Tolle- 

 mache. 



The head of the Somerset family was a very 

 steady dragsman, and knew his business well. 

 He was a less showy coachman than Lord 

 Chesterfield ; but his Grace had the qualification 

 of making each horse do his quantum of 

 work. 



Lord Chesterfield, had he possessed a little 



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