Bibliothèque mondiale du cheval

« In those days of revived Coaching, when there seems to be a perfect mania amongst the young men of the present clay for a trip ’down the Road,’ and when the Park is enlivened by so many ’aspirants to the whip,’ with their smart coaches and gaudy-going high-stepping teams, I trust I shall not be thought presumptuous in offering a sketch and a few anecdotes of old times to the young Coaching British Public. My coaching days are over; but as the worn-out charger neighs at the sound of the trumpet, as the old huntsman revives at the crack of the whip and the sound of the horn, so do I, when I see or hear of a coach, call back the days when coaches were in their glory. ’The light of other days’ has faded, it is true, but still there are some remaining who can recall with pleasure the ’palmy days of old’.[…] » Présentation de l’éditeur (1875)

« London, 1874; 1875. » Huth (1887)