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CHAPTER XI. 



OLD COACHING DAYS^ 



BY LORD ALGERNON ST. MAUR 



AMATEUR REMINISCENCES. 



THE number of old coaching men of those, that is to say, who 

 were accustomed to drive when coaching was the speediest 

 and most familiar form of locomotion is gradually becoming 

 fewer and fewer. It is because I had the advantage of being 

 or the misfortune to be? an enthusiastic coachman in days 

 of yore that the Editor has applied to me for a contribution, 

 and I hasten to fulfil the request without further apology or 

 preface. 



My active experiences go back half a century. In 1830 



