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drop a thousand or two over his amusement, it is a 

 far more sensible way of spending money than back- 

 ing Windgall, by Spavin out of Splint, at a gate- 

 meeting, and being picked up by the Ring, or shaking 

 your elbow at the Hawks, or punting and playing 

 whist at the Roysterers' Club. At any rate, he Avill 

 have some fun for his mone}^, which wall not be the 

 case if he indulges in the before-named pleasing 

 little ways of getting rid of spare time — at least, not to 

 any great extent, for the pace is usually very fast, and 

 the result, my experience teaches me, unsatisfactory. 



Starting from the Mitre at Oxford, the Defiance, 

 passing through Wheatley, Tetsworth, Stokenchurch, 

 High Wycombe, Gerrard's Cross, Uxbridge, Hayes, 

 Southall, Acton, Shepherd's Bush, reaches the White 

 Horse Cellar at 2*50; then, after halting twenty 

 minutes for refreshment, it starts again, going by 

 way of Tottenham, Edmonton, Waltham Cross, Hod- 

 desdon, Wadermill, Bustingford, Royston, and Harl- 

 ston, arriving at the Bull, Cambridge, at 9 o'clock 

 P.M., doing the distance, after deducting sixty 

 minutes for stoppages, in eleven hours, being at 

 the rate of ten miles an hour. 



This is a great undertaking, and everything has 

 been done to make the arrangements perfect, while 

 no expense has been spared to ensure a thorough 

 success. Prior to the starting of these coaches, an 

 opportunity was afforded of looking over them whilst 

 in the manufactory of Messrs. Holland ; and it is not 

 saying too much to describe them as the perfection 

 of stage-coaches for style, execution, finish, and good 

 taste. The majority of those which ^^dll be put on 

 the road this year are to be supphed by the same 



