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is what we call ' on the shelf.' The latter gentleman, 

 however, gives a good reason for quitting the coach-box. 

 ' I hunt in Leicestershire,' says he, ' all winter, and all 

 summer I am in my yacht, so that I have no time to 

 drive.' I have been by the side of Mr. Maxse, and con- 

 sider him a very good workman. 



Mr. Petre is known by having driven a coach, nearly 

 a facsimile of our mails, and he is never without a team. 

 He has a large property in Lancashire, and was a 

 member of the Old Club at Melton. 



Of Sir Bellingham Graham as a coachman I have 

 already spoken, and he stands very high in the list of 

 good ones. His coach-horse stables in London are well 

 worth seeing, as everything belonging to the drag is kept 

 in apple-pie order, and he has always a strong stock of 

 cattle. He has been for some time out of conceit with 

 large horses, being of opinion that about fifteen hands 

 one or two inches, with substance and action, is about the 

 stamp for light work in harness. 



The Marquis of Worcester is becoming a coachman 

 of some standing and considerable experience, as, exclu- 

 sive of his own horses, he works a good deal on the road. 

 His favourite coaches are the Southampton 'Telegraph ' 

 and the Oxford ' Defiance,' and here his lordship shows 

 his taste. As for Peer, on the former, I have no hesita- 

 tion in saying that he is peerless — or, like Hunt's blacking, 

 matchless ; and Thomas on the ' Defiance ' is very good. 



Of Colonel Clements I can say but little, never having 

 seen him at work. He was, I believe, a long time in the 

 1 8th Hussars, and generally has a team. Neither did I 



