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it will not do for one proprietor to give sixty guineas 

 for a horse, whilst his opponent gives but forty. Such, 

 however, I have reason to believe, was a good deal the 

 case with the two Messrs. Walker, and such was one 

 of the causes of their putting down their coaches. Their 

 stock was sold by the hammer last winter for pretty good 

 prices, and, when 1 was with Sir Bellingham Graham 

 in Shropshire, Mr. John Walker made him a present of 

 a favourite leader, by way of a keepsake from an old 

 friend. 



Mr. John Walker, who drove his own coach (a neat 

 little coachman by the name of Butcher driving his 

 brother's) is nothing less than a beautiful coachman, with 

 the benefit of much experience to boot. He puts a 

 horse to a coach in a particularly neat manner, and can 

 drive him as well as most of the best of them when he 

 gets him there. He has now a team of his own, and has 

 taken to hunting again, having been last season in War- 

 wickshire. He once had the Hambledon country, where 

 he was considered a good sportsman ; and his elder 

 brother is well established as a judicious breeder of race 

 horses, having produced Longwaist, a winner of the Oaks, 

 &c. &c. 



Of Mr. H. Wombwell and the Hon. H. Scott I can 

 say nothing, never having seen them on a coach-box ; 

 but Mr. Charles Jones (brother to Sir Tyrwhitt) is a 

 very neat performer, and quite in love with road work. 

 Like the Walkers, he had a bit of a turn in the public 

 line : but his lark did not last long. He horsed and 

 drove the Brighton ' Monarch ' coach for a few months 



