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coachmen came about, and it was then found out that the 

 horses had been regularly cut with the whip, at the sound of 

 the handle of the door turning, and it took considerable 

 time and patience on the part of the new Jehu, to persuade 

 the horses to start steadily, without bounding or plunging. 



Special care should be taken in driving down hill. 

 An Hibernian friend of the writer's used to say that he 

 " Walked the horse down hill and himself up," which 

 indicates plenty of consideration for the animal. Many 

 serious accidents would be avoided if drivers generally 

 would strictly adhere to the rule of keeping their own 

 side, viz. : to the left, at all times, except when over- 

 taking a vehicle.* This is the simple rule of the road in 

 England : You start out to the left and you come home 

 to the left. 



The whip should never mount the box without 

 previously taking a careful survey of the "Turn Out"- 

 to see that all the strappings are properly attached, the 

 traces not twisted, or buckled up too tight. One of the 

 greatest evils attending the attachment of the horse to the 

 vehicle is buckling him too tight to his work, either in the 

 kicking-strap, breech-band, bearing-rein, belly-band or 

 traces. The writer has known even the simple hip cloth, 

 through not being properly adjusted, to cause the horse to 

 bolt away at a furious speed for some miles (and unfor- 

 tunately the occupier of the box was a lady) only to be 

 stopped by the merest chance by two roadmen, happily 

 without accident other than a severe shock to the lady's 

 nerves, t And another case of oversight on the part of the 

 owner of the "Turn Out," only recently came to the writer's 



* Or meeting ladies on horseback ; or a drove of horses or sheep. 



t Similar accidents have been known to arise from strangers fixing the rein 

 billetts upon the single ring of the Wilson Snaffle, the horse having been used to 

 the double rings, being billetted together. 



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