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qualities and sterling merits of the English nobleman 

 have shown more conspicuously. 



Though the allusion may be somewhat coarse and 

 homely, I hope the spirit of it will excuse me when I 

 say his Lordship and family "were of a good sort." 

 Would we had more such. 



We will now, in contradistinction to the baroucher, 

 mention a harness-horse of really a good sort, much 

 in use at the same time that the barouche mania was 

 in force. This was the Stanhope horse, then in 

 fashion, and a neat, active, close-knit horse he was, 

 as well calculated for a liack as for harness. Mr. 

 Stanhope, from whom the vehicle took its name, 

 shone pre-eminently in this kind of horse ; his roan, 

 with the then short tail and mane in vogue with 

 hunters, w^as a totally different animal to the lengthy 

 barouche horse, with the long tails first brought in 

 with this horse ; there were scores of most useful 

 horses then used in Stanhopes. 



It may seem an easy thing to rival a man driving 

 one horse in a gig : yet it was found difficult to pro- 

 duce a turn-out that in all points came up to the 



