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astute not to see through the money-loving baronet's 

 drift, so it usuallj- ended in both horses being taken 

 at a price named for the one, that made it a pretty 

 good speculation. Sir John and the late Sir Henry 

 Peyton were about on a par in one or two particulars ; 

 both were perfect artists on the box, neither were 

 dashing coachmen, which probably led to the fact 

 that neither ever got into difficulties. The marked 

 difference between them, in one particular, was 

 this ; Sir Henrj*, as far as seat, hands, and artistic 

 manner on the box went, looked the artist he was, 

 but he also looked the gentleman ; Sir John took so 

 much pains to look like a coachman, that it left little 

 to make him look like anything superior to it. 

 His remarkable broad-leafed hat, enormous leather 

 breeches, and roll upon roll of neckcloth, -^ere all in 

 the extreme of bad taste, and showed a mind not of 

 the largest calibre. Eut both are gone; Sir John 

 when I was a boy. Sir Henry lately : the latter lived 

 to see the glories of the box go long before himself. 

 There now no longer remains the temptation to an 

 after-dinner stroll to see the mails start from the 



