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others the go-by, when their coachman gives them the 

 office. I am sorry to say Mr. Harrison's health has not 

 been quite good of late years, which accounts for our 

 not seeing him on the road so often as we could wish. 

 His turn-out is very prime. 



Mr. Henry Villebois is younger brother to the gen- 

 tleman of that name who keeps a pack of fox-hounds in 

 Hampshire. He is a great agriculturist, and, having no 

 regular team at present, is not often at work ; but he is a 

 very pretty coachman. 



Mr. Okeover is well known upon the road, and a 

 coachman of some standing. He is considered very 

 good, but not often to be seen now on his own coach- 

 box. Colonel Hamilton is in the Guards — very fond of 

 the road, but in no great practice. 



Mr. Warde 1 is almost too well known to require a 

 single line ; but when he is the theme, I cannot put 

 down my pen, he being certain to furnish me with some- 

 thing amusing. He is a coachman of at least fifty years' 

 standing ; and from having been always used to heavy 

 work, knows his business well. As I before said, he 

 worked a great deal on the Birmingham and Shrewsbury 

 'Old Prince,' and the heavy 'Gloucester;' and having, like 

 myself, often had the sole charge of the coach, he is 

 pretty well awake to most things. I have to record one 

 feat performed by him, which has not often been ex- 

 ceeded, as far as personal exertion goes :— He drove the 

 heavy 'Gloucester' from London to that town, one hundred 



1 The Father of Foxhunting ; fifty-two years an M.F.H.— Editor. 



