Many English payors stables, and .not a- few' lirefia'. H'prse's, but .the one who includes among his livestock lions and dromedaries, badgers, wolves, and ravens, in fact, a menagerie, stand's alone. Mr'Tyrwhitt-Drake, the Mayor of Maidstone, keeps all these, at an expense of £SOOO a: year. He also possesses the stud.of Hanoverian poijies which have drawn rthe.. State . coach' of England, from .the time of George the First, and before that were the State ponies of Spain. They were purchased froiri the King during the war, and'the Mayor is now the only .breeder of them iti. the world. AH this is to Be found at Cobtree Far hi, Dingley Del!,' wliijre ; Mr Pickwick is reported to, have recieived stich . abundant llQ§r pitalitv, and where 1 he'immortalised the tradition of an English. Christmas. -
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 6
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