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mals committed to his charge. A due respect more- 

 over, to the prevailing taste of the day, as exhibited 

 by our gentlemen dragsmen, could not consist with a 

 neglect of this branch of the subject. The "Whip, 

 or Four in Hand Club," and it cannot be yet worn 

 out of remembrance, seems to have been the pre- 

 cursor of driving as an essential part of a modish 

 education. Previously to this the practice was set 

 on foot by individual adepts with the stately phaeton ; 

 and, if my memory serve me faithfully, I have seen 

 my old acquaintance, Bob Allen, on Epsom course, 

 in his phaeton, driving six in hand. Mr. Onslow 

 too, had been a celebrated four in hand man, witness 

 the high encomiums upon him by one of the news- 

 paper wits of the day ; — 



Little Tommy Titmouse, what can he do ? 



Drive a Phaeton and two. 

 What can little Tommy do more ? 



Drive a phaeton and four. * 



The remarks I am now about to make tender of to 

 the gentle reader, may either be part and parcel of 

 the whims of my own brain, or may bear actual rela- 

 tion to custom and to propriety. The driver of a 

 coach, with his tenfold capes, jolly face, and full- 

 furnished corporation, may sit with all imaginable 

 stateliness and decorum in the centre of his box. 

 Not so the driver of a gig or buggy, who, sitting 

 alone in the middle, makes a cockneyish, undrags- 

 manlike appearance, exhibiting a proper model of 

 caricature for the print shops. He should invariably 

 be found on his own side, and particularly if privi- 



