1 66 SPORTS AND ANECDOTES. 



we often used to go to the meet, and take a party of 

 ladies, and so forth. He used generally to get a 

 horse of some kind to ride on those occasions, and let 

 me drive his coach back to Rome ; and though the 

 said team were, as a rule, a steady and tractable lot, 

 after they had seen the hounds their monkey would 

 get up, and they could pull like distraction. I have 

 named his coach and the team because I think they 

 really deserve some notice, as well as the owner- 

 Captain Henry Turner drove these horses, with a 

 heavy load of luggage and his family, from London 

 to Dover, crossed to Calais, and then across country 

 to Schaffhausen ; from thence over one of the moun- 

 tain passes into Italy and Rome. From Rome he 

 drove to Naples and back, without accident of any 

 kind, and without a horse being sick or sorry. This 

 was a very long journey, and speaks well for master, 

 horses, and coachman, which latter appendage was the 

 only drawback, inasmuch as, like the generality of 

 coachmen, he could not keep his nose out of a pot of 

 drink. He was a good coachman, a clever fellow, and 

 would have been a comfort to any master but for 

 that one fatal failing. 



Soon after the expedition to the Pontine Marshes, 

 the yellow coach was bound to Genoa, and then to 

 England see Down the Road, page 143. 



