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justice to add that he did not attempt to disguise 

 the fact, and that he took his misfortunes bravely, 

 like a sportsman. Reduced, as a consequence of 

 his own folly, from an income of £5000 a year to 

 nothing-, " I drive for a livelihood," he said to a 

 friend : " Jones, Worcester, and Stevenson have 

 their liveried servants behind, who pack the 

 baggage and take all short fares and pocket all 

 the fees. That's all very well for them. I do 

 all myself, and the more civil I am (particularly 

 to the old ladies) the larger fees I get." He, 

 indeed, made £300 a year out of this coach, and 

 got his sport for nothing. 



The "Jones" of whom he spoke was Charles 

 Tyrwhitt Jones, of whom, being just an amateur 

 with no eccentricities, we knoAv little. Of Harry 

 Stevenson, one of the most distinguished and 

 accomplished among amateurs of the road, w^e 

 know a good deal, although even of his short life 

 full particulars have never been secured. He 

 made his first appearance on the Brighton 

 Road in August 1827, as part-proprietor of the 

 " Coronet," and even then his name seems to have 

 been one to conjure with, for it was for painting 

 it on a coach of Avhicli he was not one of the 

 licensees that Cripps was fined in November of 

 that year. Stevenson was then but little more 

 than twenty- three years of age. He had gone 

 from Eton to Cambridge, and during his excep- 

 tionally short career was always knoAvn by the 

 fraternity of the road as " the Cambridge graduate." 

 Althouiih so little is known of him, sufiicient has 



