72 DRIVING CLUB. 



latter city and university. Studying the 

 rudiments of the art in a school where 

 every facility was rendered for acquiring 

 proficiency, and associating with some of 

 its jnost respectable professors, they soon 

 became connoisseurs, as well as amateurs, 

 and, increasing in numbers, finally re- 

 solved themselves into a club or institu- 

 tion, caUed the B.D.C., or Bedford 

 Driving Club, but lately extinct ; after 

 which, by a handsome donation of a 

 hundred guineas, they founded another 

 B.D.C., or Benevolent Driving Club, 

 which has also been defunct some little 

 time. Both tended very much to 

 the advantage, and also to the respect- 

 ability, of their more humble tutors in 

 the art, and their successors. 



About this time, and out of this insti- 

 tution, sprang up another, termed the 

 "Bang Up," in accordance with the 

 slang then much in vogue, and it 

 reckoned among its numbers some 



