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and would at once attract the notice of 

 every beholder. 



Doubtless there were others equally 

 worthy of recording, but my memory does 

 not serve me nor is it necessary to par- 

 ticularize each individual member or his 

 team. 



During several seasons driving four-in- 

 hand was a fashionable pastime, and its 

 practice had a considerable effect in im- 

 proving the conduct and manners of the 

 men whose business and livelihood it was. 

 A perfect knowledge of the art involved 

 the necessity of an association with some of 

 its professors not only for practice sake, but 

 that the amateur might acquire the rudi- 

 ments, without which he found it impossible 

 to become a proficient. Therefore was the 

 benefit reciprocal ; for while the tyro was 

 gaining information from the precepts as 

 well as the example of the experienced 

 practitioner, the latter was also acquiring a 



