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less leather handles, but I have no doubt they can be 

 obtained of all good whip-makers ; there is this 

 advantage about them, that they look well and are more 

 comfortable to hold. 



As for coach-horns, I know only three good makers, 

 although there are, no doubt, many more ; these are 

 Messrs. Kohler & Son (established 1780), of 116, 

 Victoria Street, Westminster; H. Potter & Co., 2)0, 

 Charing Cross, and Arthur Chappell, 52, New Bond 

 Street; but were I asked, I think I should be inclined to 

 say Messrs. Kohler stand pre-eminent as the makers of 

 all kinds of horns, particularly coach-horns, to which 

 they seem to have given a great deal of attention, and 

 whether it be the post-horn of twenty-seven inches, 

 the Beaufort coach-horn of thirty-six inches, the heavy 

 mail-coach horn of forty-six inches, or the telescopic 

 horn of unlimited length, Mr. Kohler will supply you, 

 and, moreov^er, will teach you how to blow it. Con- 

 sequently, having said this much, I think I may take 

 leave of my readers : veteran coachmen, coachmen 

 who aspire to the bench and to the handling of the 

 four ribbons, and those who are interested in the 

 subject, not because they were, are, or intend being 

 coachmen, but because over all that concerns the roads 

 and the wheels that travel thereon there exists for 

 them a certain amount of indefinable interest, since 

 these still afford an avenue for locomotion, and so long 

 as the world lasts we, its inhabitants, will roll about it, 

 unless in course of time some other means of progres- 

 sion be substituted for that of travelling on wheels over 

 the highways and byways of the world. 



