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the colour of the locks ; therefore I say, above all things 

 be natural, for Nature will not allow liberties to be 

 taken with her with impunity, and by going in 

 opposition to her laws, that will be found to be a 

 delusion which was intended for a snare. 



Certainly in no other city in the world will you see 

 such a number of handsome equipages and noble 

 horses as are to be found in Hyde Park, at the height 

 of the season. For instance, the phaeton and pair of 

 gray and bay handsome high-stepping horses, which 

 savour strongly of Green Street, the property of 

 Mr. Arthur Anderson; the well-appointed buggy of 

 Captain Selwyn, of the Blues, drawn by a sensational 

 stepper, considered by many people to be the grandest 

 goer in London at the present time ; the phaeton of 

 Mr. Emile Levitas, with his remarkably handsome 

 brown horses ; Lord Lismore's neat brougham and 

 splendid chestnut horse ; Lord Fife's handsome team ; 

 Mr. Blundell Leigh's buggy and high-class horse ; Sir 

 William Eden's coach and four topping nags ; Count 

 Munster's drag and spicy chestnuts; Sir Thomas 

 Peyton's workmanlike team ; Lord Calthorpe's splen- 

 did cab and grand horse, certainly one of the best 

 equipages to be seen. This is, I think, one of the 

 pleasantest vehicles for London work, infinitely superior 

 to the now popular buggy, but it must be first-rate ; 

 the horse high-couraged, a grand stepper, resolute but 

 temperate, the cab of the best style, and the tiger 

 smart, handy, and irreproachably dressed and as his 

 lordship spares no expense, and possesses excellent 

 taste and judgment it is no wonder that he has the 

 best of everything, notably his handsome, shapely, 

 high-stepping cob, a model animal. 



