The Sport of Our ctAncestors 



expense,' ^ flows on unbroken, until it is half-past seven, 

 and people at last must begin to think of what they still call 

 dinner. Old Seneca tells us such a blaze of splendour was 

 once to be seen on the Appian Way. It might be so : it is 

 now to be seen nowhere but in London. 



^ Already, however, like all other trades, coach-making is on the wane. 

 Two years back, the town-coach could not be had under four hundred guineas. 

 Three hundred is the price now. The travelling-chariot, with everything 

 complete, could not be purchased under three hundred and eighty guineas ; 

 three hundred will now suffice. The town-cabriolet with patent boxes to 

 the wheels, commenced at a hundred and fifty guineas, a hundred and twenty 

 is now the figure ; and so with all the rest of the tribe. 



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