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gorgeous creature clad in black knee-breeches and silk 

 stockings ; with buckled shoes and cocked-hat ; 

 with coat and waist- 

 coat of a courtly type, 

 trimmed and faced 

 with gold lace. It is 

 nothing less than 

 startling to see such 

 an uniform in daily 

 use ; and, still more 

 amazing is it, when 

 you ask the wearer 

 of it who he is, to 

 hear him reply, with 

 a grave politeness, 

 that he is the City 

 Sergeant. Old insti- 

 tutions live long here, 

 and old people, too. 

 At Canterbury died, 

 in 1891, aged ninety- 

 one, William Clements, 

 one of the last, if not 

 the last, of the old 

 stage - coach drivers, 

 who had driven the 

 " Tally-ho " coach 

 between this and Lon- 

 don long before the 

 railway was thought 

 of; and in July, 1901, 

 aged 89, died Stephen 

 Philpott, who was 

 coachman of the 

 Dover Mail, until the 

 railway ran him off. 

 He was transferred to a route between London and Heme 

 Bay, and afterwards became proprietor of the " Royal 

 Oak," Dover, since demolished for street improvements. 



A (i OK GEO US CIIEATURE. 



