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listening to the account whicli her mother is giving 

 of how people used to flock to this particular spot 

 when she was a girl — snch a gathering as this 

 evidently denotes some event of more than ordinary 

 import ; and, after policeman A 1 has considerately 

 placed a youthful bride and bridegroom — beyond 

 doubt fresh from the provinces — in an advantageous 

 position, he has time to answer my inquiry as to the 

 cause of the gathering together of so great a number 

 of eager but decorous and quietly disposed specta- 

 tors. He courteously informs me that they are await- 

 ing the advent of Her Majesty, who will pass through 

 the Park shortly en route for Windsor via the Great 

 Western Railway. Then, whilst awaiting the arrival 

 of Royalty, I have time to look around, and I notice an 

 admirably turned-out drag, drawn by four clipping 

 dark-brown horses, a well-matched and excellent 

 team, handled in proper style as it is worked through 

 the crowd, going in the direction of Knightsbridge. 

 Next, my particular attention is riveted on a Vic- 

 toria, drawn by an exceedingly neat little bay horse 

 in splendid condition, the whole turn-out being per- 

 fect in every respect, with servants of a class that are 

 only found attending on persons of distinction and 

 fashion, and you know at a glance that the fault- 

 lessly-dressed occupant of that stylish turn-out is one 

 of the leaders of society of the first order. 



Amidst the different vehicles assembled here I fail 

 to observe either the cab, with its diminutive " tiger," 

 or the Tilbury, with its upstanding, hogmaned, high- 

 actioned horse. Now a cab by Barker, with an 

 animal such as Lord Cardigan used to drive, or a 

 Tilbury resembling that with which Jack Spalding 



