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sleeves, for verily elbow grease would be the machines in his club’s historical collec- called for in wholesale 1ucnmtic.;. The tion arc ued. knowing person who does the steer- g smiles furtiv cly at the reflection that he is out very much ahcad in the matter of division of labour. But even with that, 1t will be obscrved, he has pulled his hat over his cyes as though rather ashamed of himself for so using a fellow-creaturc. As well he mayv be.

After this came the hobby-horse. In 1808 this strange machine—two wheels, tandem fashion, connected by a bar—madc its appearance In Paris. Therce werc no means of steering this thing, so that presum- ably,whul the ndu atter straddling across the scat plawd midway on the connecting-bar, and paddlmo

furiou\'ly with his feet ad’dlll\t the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH S DANDY-HORSE, ground, arrived at a corner , he had to litt up the whole thmfl and dump [hese dandy-horses became all the rage,

it down again 1 a new d1rcct1ou After the coat-tails of our grandfathers and orcat-grandfathers fluttered bravely over the roads, and the striding legs of the same gentlemen beat up the dust north, south, cast, and wcst. [t became fashionable, as well as popular, and at the cxhibition of the Stanley Club once was shown which had been the property of the orcat-grandfather of the present Duke of Marlborough. .

This ducal vehicleis appropriately : rather a swell. It has an orna- mented brass htting at the top of the stecering-socket, and an cextra laroe cushion (albeit now burst out) upon which rested the ducal elbows, T'his was the production of a maker and patentee of the name of Parker, Being fashionable, of course the craze was caricatured, and many

JOHNSON 'S DANDY- -HORSE,

some few years, this scems to have struck a genius as an inconvenience ;. whercupon said gentus proceceded to mount the front wheel, so that it might be turnced, and, behold ! there uncrficd the dandy-horsc. A Mr. Dennis I()hnx(m who was a coach- maker, at 73 Long-acre, took out a patent for this dandy or hob byv-horse m 1818, and we here reproduce a photograph of one of these very machines of Johnson's—still in cxistence, and represented as bestridden by Mr. I. Dring, of the HtcmhyUuD by which gentleman’s permission the photographs of

Loy o Diccwiny bid % A oD sPiED.) [Cruichshank,