latest springs and running gear, um- 

 brella rack, horn, lunch larder, and 

 what not; with footmen or postil- 

 ions, according to the degree of style, 

 to run to the horses' heads at the first 

 hitch; with the gentleman driver in 

 cream box coat and beribboned whip; 

 with everything down to the pole pin 

 correct and immaculate. 



Then there is Western coaching, 

 which is more properly termed staging, 

 for which is used any vehicle that will 

 hold together and whose wheels will 

 turn round. This is pulled by half- 

 broken shaggy horses which would 

 kick any man who ventured near them 

 with brush or currycomb, and which 

 are sometimes made to travel until they 

 drop in the road. The harness on such 

 coaching trips is an assortment of sin- 

 gle, double, leaders and wheelers sets, 



