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So with Harriers in Essex, where farmers 

 are numerous and wealthy ; their fields are as 

 different to those who meet the Brighton at the 

 Devil's Dike, where men of fortune and fashion 

 form the majority, as two assemblies of persons 

 can be. At the latter place each man is 

 (barring of course the scarlet coat) as well 

 dressed as their tailor, valet, and good taste 

 can make them. Whereas in the former case, 

 if the pack met, we will say at Warmington or 

 Stifford, dark corduroys or cloth breeches, with 

 boots or perhaps gaiters to match, would be 

 found to preponderate. 



It is quite true Brighton, chiefly owing to 

 the railroad, has become a very different place 

 from what it was when the late George the 

 Fourth made it his residence for many months 

 in the year, when the "Tenth were as intimately 

 associated with the name of Brighton as are 

 the Guards with London.'* The races then 

 showed an assemblage of a large portion of the 



