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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



that one celebrated occasion chronicled, when he sat by 

 him on the box-seat and saw him deal with a team 



comprised of the engag- 

 ing attributes of " Three 

 blind 'uns and a bolter," 

 or in the coachman's own 

 words " Four horses, but 

 they've only got two eyes 

 among 'em, and it would 

 be quite as well if that 

 horse had not any so far 

 as I know — for he makes 

 shocking bad use of 'em 

 at all times I can tell 

 you." 



A differently organized 

 team was equally success- 

 fully coped with by one 

 known to fame as Old 

 John Scott. He drove 

 the Chester and Holyhead 

 Mail, and remarked to 

 Mr. Revnardson, who was 

 using all his art to boil 

 up a trot going up Pen- 

 maenmawr (thirty - six 

 miles from Holyhead), 

 "Hit 'em sly— hit 'em 

 sly ! ' : And on being 

 asked the reason for this 

 dark advice alleged that 

 if this particular team 

 heard the whip before 

 they felt it, they would 

 never be got up Penmaen- 

 mawr at all. Nor was " hitting 'em sly " with the 

 whip the ingenious Old John Scott's sole method of 

 dealing on heavy ground with this extremely sticky 



Ford's Hospital, Coventry. 



