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Driving a Team is, on the whole, very far from child's 

 play, and it needs a smart wagoner to know and carry 

 out all the nice points of the art : how, for instance, to make 

 the wheelers work, when to put on the drags, when to run 

 down without them, how to regulate the pace, especially 

 when descending a steep decline, how to go nicely and col- 

 lectedly over the tops of all hills, whether great or small, 

 with numerous other minor matters, which study and 

 practice can alone teach. 



Fourteen miles an hour is a tremendously fast pace 

 for leaders to trot. Such a rate of going would necessitate 

 that the wheelers should gallop. Speed is, I always think, 

 far less necessary than stamina in a four-in-hand team. 

 A well made up quartett, of which every horse has two 

 good ends, ought to travel from London to Epsom at a 

 fair steady pace, and come back in the evening in spanking 

 style. 



A Team that will Trot briskly up the hill to the 

 Star and Garter at Richmond at the rate of, say, eight 

 miles an hour without the whip, may be pronounced a real 

 good thing. 



If Four Horses cannot be matched in height, I 

 advocate conceding the difference to the wheelers. Age 

 will not matter very much — nor will colour — for merely 

 useful work ; but go and action are all important. 



A GOOD AND HUMANE DRIVER always looks to the con- 

 dition of each horse separately, when halting after a long 



