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Chester. Mrs. T. will be a great loss to the road, as she 

 was full of life and spirit.' 



I must here remark that, though perhaps not equal to 

 him in neatness of execution, I consider the coachman I 

 have been speaking of to have had an advantage over 

 Jack Hale in his great command of temper. Although 

 allowed by all judges to have been a beautiful coachman, 

 Jack was not considered a good man with bad horses, 

 being what is termed ' rather too quick for them.' 



Before I quit the old ones, I must bring my brother 

 whip and brother sportsman, Mr. Wise, late of the 

 Southampton ' Union,' once more before the public. As a 

 coachman, I cannot speak of him, having never sat beside 

 him ; but I, as well as many others, have been much l 

 amused, not to say edified, by his discourse. I have an 

 excellent anecdote of him now to produce, which was 

 related to me a few weeks back by a gentleman who 

 resides in this country. My friend's son had just been 

 ordained Deacon, or, in the language of the day, 'ja- 

 panned,' and the first time after entering upon his holy 

 office that he got by the side of old Wise upon his coach- 

 box, the following conversation took place : 



Mr. Wise: 'Well, Mr. John, so you be got into 

 orders.' 



Young Divine: 'W T hy, yes, I am.' 



1 I shall not easily forget his definition of the new and old coachman^ 

 by the covert's side, the season before last, with Mr. Nicoll's hounds. There 

 were two or three members of the Lower House present, who received a 

 good lesson on the modern dialectic, and were highly entertained by it. 

 Although there is a story of his once dropping his wheel rein and catching 

 it on his toe, I never heard of Wise having an accident on the ' Union/ and 

 I dare say he was equal to the old way of doing business. 



