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tree, and buys largely, through an agent, of first-class 

 hunters and hacks ; he has, in fact, long been to 

 Piccadilly what Benedick is to the Champs d' Elysdes ; 

 and his brother, Mr. John Anderson, has a very rising 

 business at Green- street, Grosvenor-square. Mr. 

 Quartermaine, who once " hailed" from Oxford, buys 

 carriage-horses as well as hunters and hacks, and 

 gives and gets, without exception, as high prices as 

 any man of the day. He cannot rest if there is a 

 good thing in the market, and has always " a particu- 

 lar reason for wanting it directly." We seldom give 

 a passing peep down those trim corridor-sort of yards, 

 which make one feel more than anything else the high 

 dignity of the horse in England, and see those 

 mysterious, knowing little knots of purchasers which 

 are ever scanning him there, without calling to mind 

 how the Duke of Queensberry was wont, some fifty 

 years since, to test the pace of his running-footman 

 candidates, by timing them from his balcony, as they 

 ran up and down that self-same pleasant dip in 

 Piccadilly. But our note* must tell the rest. Mr. 

 S. Cox, of Stamford- street, buys all sorts, from high- 

 class hunters down to cart-horses, in which his uncle, 

 the late Mr. George Cox, drove a very thriving trade 

 among the brewers and distillers ; and Mr. R. 

 Phillips, of Knightsbridge, assisted by his father-in 

 law, Mr. Tawney, buys very largely in Shropshire, 

 and furnishes a great many entire horses and other 

 thorough-bred stock to the foreigners. The Emperor 

 of the French, who has been amongst his largest 



* The running footmen drank white wine and egg-, and carried 

 some white wine in the large silver ball of their tall cane or pole, 

 which unscrewed. ***** They put on the Duke's livery 

 before the trial. On one occasion a candidate presented himself, 

 dressed, and ran. At the conclusion of the performance he stood 

 before the balcony. " You'll do very well for me," said the Duke. 

 " Your livery will do very well for me," replied the man, and gave 

 the Duke a last proof of his ability as a runner by running away with 

 it. Notes and Queries. 



