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his opinion is held in high esteem. His colour has 

 always been grey, and his stable generally consists of 

 ten coach horses. His pace is not fast, but it is well 

 calculated to see horses work, and his are beautifully put 

 together. I saw him pull back his team last spring in a 

 crowd in London, and every rein told as true as if it had 

 been single. He works regularly, summer and winter, 

 •though occasionally some of his coach horses are out in 

 the latter season. He has, however, always one team up 

 in the winter, and he often brings a load of sportsmen to 

 the covert's side. From his house to Oxford — eighteen 

 miles, — is his favourite ground, and it is a good hard road 

 for wheels. Sir Henry first introduced the ornaments, 

 the cap and the thumb-ferrel, on the four-horse whips, 

 which we now generally see in the hands of our swell 

 coachmen. That he may long live to enjoy his favourite 

 amusements, is the wish of every man who knows him. 

 Mr. Algernon Peyton, the Baronet's brother, is a very 

 capital coachman, but he has not had a team for some 

 years — perhaps, not thinking it consistent with the fine 

 church preferment he is in possession of. He was very 

 good on the box when at Cambridge, and worked much 

 on the road, which is the only education for a coachman. 

 Gentleman's work, alone, will never do. 



' No man in England ' is better horsed than Mr. 

 Harrison, of Shelswell in Oxfordshire, and he is a very 

 good coachman. His colour is brown ; and when I 

 inform my readers that he will go as far as three 

 hundred guineas for a coach horse the tale is told. His 

 pace is quick, and his team can generally give most 



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