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which owners are prone cannot be pointed out, and all that 

 can be done and is required is the use of common sense, 

 thoughtfulness and occasionally a little self-sacrifice. Charles 

 Brindley treats of this subject very forcibly in " The Pocket 

 and the Stud," pp. 187, 188, as follows: 



" It is true we see the most splendid equipages out in the most inclem- 

 ent weather ; but what are they doing ? Taking their lords or masters to or from 

 the house, to dinner or a party, bringing their ladies from a villa to the 

 town house, or to a dinner or party, also. The pace keeps them warm while 

 going, they set down, and come home, and are dried. There are other 

 horses and other horses, if wanted, to fetch their owners back ; but we do 

 not see such owners starving their horses and servants, cheapening bonnets 

 or silks at half a dozen different shops. Many hundreds who do, if they 

 were going to ten different shops close together, would not, if they lived 

 two hundred yards off, walk there, nor knowing they would be three hours 

 order their carriage to call for them at a certain hour, for the world. What, 

 lose letting the nine others see they kept a carriage. Oh, the delight of 

 * Put those things in the carriage,' or, ' William,' beckoning their servant 

 into the shop, put this in the pocket of the carriage.' Pleasant and salu- 

 tary all this for clipped horses. 



"If they [a family] wanted to go to dinner at seven, won't the carriage 

 be ordered to the door at five, to be seen there ? If wanted to go shopping, 

 which it certainly would be two hundred and fifty days a year, won't it be 

 ordered at two, to go at half past three ? Won't it be ' to and again ' as 

 people describe our canine friend in a fair? Won't the tablets to write on 

 and the * tablets of memory' be taxed to write up all and every person they 

 ever spoke to, and to find out their residences to make a call in the car- 

 riage ? Won't Thomas be taught to give a regular ' Londonderry ' at the 

 door, only somewhat longer and louder? As the boys say, ' Won't he 

 though?' " 



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The average horse should be able to cover between seven 

 and ten miles per hour, and from fourteen to sixteen miles 

 per day. The weight of the carriage, the nature of the roads 



