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coach ; you have nothing to do but to visit Barker, 

 Hollands, or Hooper, and you will quickly be pro- 

 vided with what you require. Not so easy is it to 

 put together a team of handsome, w^ell-matched, 

 temperate, and high-stepping animals. It will take 

 some time, and no small sum of money, to procure 

 four nags such as you will be proud to exhibit at a 

 gathering like that of the Coaching Club. Little, 

 if anything, short of 1200 guineas will be about the 

 figure for an average lot of handsome and useful 

 horses ; but if you desire anything superlative, you 

 will have to open your purse-strings still wider. A 

 foreigner of distinction went the other day to a 

 dealer, asking for a pair of steppers, and, wishing 

 to make it understood that he required a perfect 

 match, he threw down a pair of exquisite kid 

 gloves, saying, " you understand me, they must 

 be comme ga, and I do not care what money I 

 shall pay for them." " What did you do for that 

 particular customer ? " I inquired of the dealer. 

 " \Yell," he said, " I picked up two very nice- 

 looking horses for £250, and sold them to him for 

 £600." ''Not a bad deal," was my remark. 



At length the happy medium in regard to weather 

 has been attained, there was enough and yet not 

 too much sun. Not the intense heat which was 

 experienced a few days back at the meeting of the 

 Four-in-Hand Club, when it was simply tropical. 

 Consequent upon the pleasant state of the atmo- 

 sphere there was a large attendance of spectators, 

 not so numerous as I have seen on former occasions, 

 but yet sufficient both in quantity and quality to 

 make this the gayest assembly of the season. The 



