126 ANNALS OF THE ROAD. 



To speak the truth I have never thought it worth my 

 while to enquire the names of the ''pair-horse" performers ; 

 but I believe that one Carter has something to do with 

 the driving of the " Hero," and Hayler's horse-keeper, 

 perhaps, drives or drove the other.' 



That some of the men who acted as Jehus and guards 

 should have done so through all kinds of weather, proves 

 that there is something excessively attractive in the life 

 they lead. The Brighton road has always been especially 

 fortunate in its choice of aristocratic coachmen. Besides 

 Sir Vincent Cotton, who drove ' The Age,' the Marquis of 

 Worcester, father of the present Duke of Beaufort, drove 

 the 'Beaufort;' 1 while the Hon : Fred. Jerningham, a son 

 of Lord Stafford, drove the Brighton day mail. No fees 

 were solicited on these coaches ; yet all of them pocketed 

 their ' tips ' with as much readiness and relish as would 

 the poorest ' Knight of the Whip.' 



1 There is a capital picture, a coloured engraving, of this stage-coach 

 starting from the West-end < Bull and Mouth ' Coach Office, in Resent 

 Street Circus, Piccadilly. 



