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This is not unlike " We will all go a-hunting 

 to-day," which poor Caldecott so cleverly illustrated. 

 In speaking of Randolph Caldecott, not only was he a 

 most remarkable artist, far superior in my opinion to 

 John Leech, but he was a humourist in the truest 

 sense of the word. Leech's sketches were funny and 

 amusing when taken as a whole, but the minutest 

 detail in Caldecott's sketches provoked laughter ; his 

 sense of the humorous was so extraordinary that every 

 figure in his drawings was suggestive of some joke ; 

 the faces of both human beings and animals told a 

 tale which needed no further signification. I do not 

 believe that any clever sketcher will ever surpass 

 Caldecott. 



The time-tables of the various coaches always 

 appear in the Sporting Gazette. I here give one of 

 them which appeared in the year 1879; as will be seen, 

 it has the time-bill of the celebrated "Defiance" coach.""'' 



BoxHiLL. — A well-appointed four-horse coach leaves " Hatchett's " 

 Hotel, Piccadilly, at 11.30 a.m., and returns from the "Burford 

 Bridge " Hotel at 4 p.m. every day (Sundays excepted). The 

 journey will occupy two hours and a half. 



Brighton. — A fast four-horse coach leaves the White Horse Cellars, 

 Piccadilly, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 1 2 o'clock, 

 arriving at the "Old Ship," Brighton, at 6 p.m., returning Monday, 

 Wednesday, and Friday, starting and arriving at same hours. 



Dorking. — A fast four-horse coach leaves Hatchett's White Horse 

 Cellars every morning (Sundays excepted) at 11.15, via Clapham 

 Common, Morden, Ewell, Epsom, Alstead, Leatherhead, Boxhill, 

 &c., returning to Piccadilly at 6 p.m. 



Guildford. — A fast four-horse coach runs daily, Sundays excepted, 

 from the White Horse Cellars, Piccadilly, at 1 1 a.m., arriving 

 at the "White Hart," Guildford, at 2 p.m. ; returning at 4 p.m., 

 due in Piccadilly at 7 p.m. 



Hampton Court. — A coach leaves the " Horse Shoe " Hotel every 

 morning (Sundays excepted) at 11.30 a.m., via Shepherd's Bush, 

 Hammersmith, Barnes Common, Roehampton, Wimbledon, and 

 Kingston, arriving at the "Mitre" at 1.15 p.m., returning at 

 4.15, due at the "Horse Shoe" at 6 p.m. 



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