. The essays of Leigh Hunt. lies in the occupancy of houses on the road, prize-lighters, Bow Street runners and accidents. He concludesthat you know Dick Sams, or Old Joey, and proceeds torelate some of the stories that relish his pot and tobacco inthe evening. If any of the four-in-hand gentry go by, heshakes his head, and thinks they might find somethingbetter to do. His contempt for them is founded onmodesty. He tells you that his off-hand horse is as prettya goer as ever was, but that Kitty— Yeah, now there,Kitty, cant you be still ? Kittys a devil, Sir, for all youwouldnt think it. He kno
. The essays of Leigh Hunt. lies in the occupancy of houses on the road, prize-lighters, Bow Street runners and accidents. He concludesthat you know Dick Sams, or Old Joey, and proceeds torelate some of the stories that relish his pot and tobacco inthe evening. If any of the four-in-hand gentry go by, heshakes his head, and thinks they might find somethingbetter to do. His contempt for them is founded onmodesty. He tells you that his off-hand horse is as prettya goer as ever was, but that Kitty— Yeah, now there,Kitty, cant you be still ? Kittys a devil, Sir, for all youwouldnt think it. He knows that the boys on the roadadmire him, and gives the horses an indifferent lash withhis whip as they go by. If you wish to know what rainand dust can do, you should look at his old hat. There isan indescribably placid and paternal look in the position ofhis corduroy knees and old top-boots on the foot-board,with their pointed toes and never-cleaned soles. His beau-ideal of appearance is a frock-coat, with mother-o-pearl. COACHES 221 buttons, a stripped yellow waistcoat, and a flower in hismouth. But all our praises why for Charles and Robert?Rise, honest Mews, and sing the classic Bobart. Is the quadrijugal virtue of that learned person still extant ?That Olympic and Baccalaureated charioteer ?—That besteducated and most erudite of coachmen, of whom DominieSampson is alone worthy to speak ? That singular punningand driving commentary on the Sunt quos curriculo collegisse ?In short, the worthy and agreeable Mr Bobart, Bachelor ofArts, who drove the Oxford stage some years ago, cappedverses and the front of his hat with equal dexterity, andread Horace over his brandy-and-water of an evening ?We had once the pleasure of being beaten by him in thatcapital art, he having brought up against us an unusualnumber of those cross-armed letters, as puzzling to verse-cappers as iron-cats unto cavalry,- ycleped Xs ; which saidwarfare he was pleased to call to mind in after-times, untodi
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