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watchful eye ou their every step, formed a striking 

 contrast. 



But when Sir Felix Agar turned in at the Park gates 

 in magnificent style, with his four iron greys — the cost of 

 each, I should guess, was little under 250 or 300 guineas 

 — every horse carrying his head in the right place, the 

 appointments all scrupulously correct, the driver sitting 

 erect on the box, in perfect command of the team, it was 

 a sight for the gods to dwell upon, and would at once 

 attract the notice of every beholder. 



Doubtless there were others equally worthy of record- 

 ing, but my memory does not serve me — nor is it 

 necessary — to particularize each individual member or 

 his team. 



During several seasons driving four-in-hand was a 

 fashionable pastime, and its practice had a considerable 

 effect in improving the conduct and manners of the men 

 whose business and livelihood it was. A perfect know- 

 ledge of the art involved the necessity of an association 

 with some of its professors — not only for practice sake, 

 but that the amateur might acquire the rudiments, with- 

 out which he found it impossible to become a proficient. 

 Therefore was the benefit reciprocal ; for while the tyro 

 was gaining information from the precepts as well as the 

 example of the experienced practitioner, the latter was 

 also acquiring a little polish in manners, style, and 

 address, that better fitted him for a position to which he 

 had been advanced by the notice and patronage of the 

 rich. 



But now the objects of both have vanished, and the art 

 is likely to die with the purpose that gave it birth. 



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