at least showed but few and intermittent signs of life. The "Age," which then was owned by Mr. F. W. Capps, was the last coach to run re

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whip of consummate skill, drove the day-mail; a time when the "Age" itself was driven by that sportsman of gambling memory, Sir St. Vincent Cotton, and by that Mr. Stevenson who was its founder, mentioned more particularly on page 37. When Mr. Capps became proprietor, h

ing acquaintance, was on the road to London, via Dorking and Kingston, in the summer months. It was discontinued in 1862. A pict

day, subscribed a capital, in shares of ￡10, and a little yellow coach, the "Old Times," was put on the highway. Among the promoters of the venture were Captain Haworth, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord H. Thynne, Mr. Chandos Pole, Mr. "Cherry" Angell, Colonel Armytage, Captain Lawrie, and Mr. Fitzgerald. The experimen

handos Pole, at the close of the summer season, determined to carry on by himself, throughout the w

ill, i.e., never ran empty, all the summer, either way. The partners this year were the Earl

ning his coach until 1872. In the following year an American amateur, Mr. Tiffany, kept up th

" on, late in the season. In the following year Mr. Freeman's coach ran, doubled again, and single in 1883. It was again absent in 1884-5-6, in which last year it ran to Windsor; but it reappeared on the Brighton Road in 1887 as the "Comet," and in the winter of that year was continued by Captain Beckett, who had Selby and Fownes as w

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ared on the Brighton Road as a rival to the "Comet," and continued t

, and in April was again doubled for the summer, runni

ad; but justice was not done to it, or to Selby, in that incidental allusion. They require a niche

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pture such heights of rhyme. He could, and did, rhyme "poet" with "know it," but he