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next ; and the Orleans Club put on a coach to Twickenham via 

 Richmond, with Adams as coachman ; while, during the winter, 

 Lord Arthur Somerset and Mr. C. A. R. Hoare ran the Rapid 

 to Beckenham, an arrangement which found occupation for 

 Selby when he had finished with the Tunbridge Wells. 



The coaches which in 1878 ran in and out of London, 

 and lent quite an old-time appearance to Piccadilly, were, in 

 great measure, made up of old friends. Mr. Parsons ran 

 to Watford and St. Albans ; Mr. Shoolbred and Mr. Luxmore, 

 with whom Major Furnivall made only a short stay two 

 years previously, looked after the Guildford, having Sir H. de 

 Bathe with them ; while the Windsor remained in the hands 

 of Colonel Greenall, Mr. Bailey, and Captain Spicer. Lord 

 A. Lennox joined Mr. Freeman on the Brighton road ; while 

 visitors were carried to Dorking through the medium of the 

 Perseverance now started by Mr. William Sheather, with 

 Lord Aveland as his chief supporter ; and this coach ran every 

 year in the same hands down to the time of Mr. Sheather's 

 death in 1885. As might have been expected, the horses 

 were excellent, and the very liberal complement allowed 

 no doubt accounted for their freshness at the season's end, 

 when they were offered for sale. Mr. Sheather held to the 

 idea that no horse should work more than once a day, and so 

 the return journey was made with entirely fresh teams, an 

 arrangement which materially lightened the work of the horses, 

 for the coach invariably loaded well, be the weather what it 

 might ; Arthur Perrin was guard and Mr. Sheather's right-hand 

 man. Lord Arthur Somerset and Mr. Hoare, having finished 

 their winter undertaking to Beckenham, changed to West 

 Wickham for the summer, Selby going with them ; Mr. Har- 

 greaves again ran to Portsmouth, having as companions Mr. 

 H. Wormald, his old partner, and Mr. L. Blackett, who, it is 

 believed, had had some practice driving on the Brighton and 

 Arundel road. Mr. Carleton Blyth deserted coaching in 1877, 

 but he this year (1878) again went to Oxford, and, changing 

 his .route,- ran by Maidenhead and Henley ; and the list of 



