SPORTS AND ANECDOTES. 



INTRODUCTION. 



THE great and very flattering success which has 

 attended the publication of my humble production, 

 Down the Road ; or, Reminiscences of a Gentleman 

 Coachman, induces me to believe that it has not 

 been entirely without interest to the young coach- 

 ing British public, to those chips of the old block, 

 for whose amusement it w T as compiled. 



The very flattering and indulgent way in which 

 it was reviewed in most of the papers and journals 

 of any note, has, what is called, " set my hackles up," 

 and, like an old game cock, whose deeds of pluck 

 and daring are so much condemned in these de- 

 generate days, I feel inclined to crow and go at it 

 again ; and, like Oliver Twist, of voracious appe- 

 tite, though I ought to be satisfied with what has 



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