306 COACHING. 



obtained the permission of the authorities 

 to run EngUsh stage-coaches between St. 

 Denis and Paris. Three more of these 

 vehicles were on their route for the same 

 destination, with Enghsh coachmen and har- 

 ness. 



The success of the undertaking was far dif- 

 ferent from what was expected, and after a 

 time the enterprise was abandoned, the Pari- 

 sians preferring their lumbering conveyances to 

 the well-appointed " drag." 



In conclusion, I am delighted to find that the 

 love of coaching is not extinct, that at the 

 present time there are some admirably well- 

 appointed teams to be daily seen at the old 

 " White Horse Cellar," and that they are 

 yearly on the increase. We have the Brighton, 

 the Dorking, the Guildford, the Oxford, the 

 Tunbridge, the Windsor, and the Watford, with 

 cattle that would delight the eyes of a Peer, 

 were he alive to see them. 



Both the amateur and professional " drags- 

 men " do their work well, and during the 

 Summer season nothing will prove more agree- 

 able than the box-seat or an outside place on 

 one of the above mentioned coaches. 



