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me speedily to do so) without once more adverting to the 

 merits of a coach I have already named, the "New Dart.'' 

 Believe me, gentle reader, it is one of the very best on 

 the road ; and let me counsel you by no means to omit 

 travelling this autumn with both George Deere and Ned 

 Pattenden ; for it would, I assure you, be a service of con- 

 siderable difficulty to find two better dragsmen or more 

 obliging fellows out of any yard, not in Brighton alone, 

 but the whole of London. I hope the proprietors intend 

 to keep both sides on during the winter, as it will be a 

 thousand pities to throw such artists out of regular em- 

 ployment ; and working alternate weeks, which, if one 

 side is dropped, I suppose they will be obliged to do, is 

 hardly sufficient (in winter) to make the pot boil, and not 

 at all commensurate with the deserts of either one or the 

 other. 



' Your patience, Mr. Editor, I should think must now 

 be at an end. I beg your forgiveness for having tres- 

 passed on it so long, and conclude by giving you a list *of 

 coaches out of Brighton on the ist October, 1828, with 

 the various hours at which they started for London and 

 the names of the dragsmen now at work. As a matter of 

 reference it may hereafter be interesting, and I think you 



will find it perfectly correct. 



' Viator Jun. 



' P.S. — I must take an early opportunity of travelling 

 with both Clary and Jordan on that first-rate coach, the 

 " Comet, " for, from everything that I can learn of them, 

 they are precisely the sort of artists that Bob Snow, for 

 the sake of consistency, should have always about him. 



