HINTS ON DRIVING. 



BY C. S. WARD, 



THE WELL-KNOWN "WHIP OF THE WEST," 



Pax ton Stables (opposite Tatters alt* s}. 



IT has been said, and not, perhaps, without reason, that a man who 

 is conscious that he possesses some practical knowledge of a science, and 

 yet refrains from giving the public the benefit of his information, is open 

 to the imputation of selfishness. To avoid that charge, as far as lies in 

 my power, I purpose, in the course of the following pages, to give my 

 readers the benefit of my tolerably long experience in the art of driving 

 four horses an art which I acquired under the following circum- 

 stances. 



My father was a coach proprietor as well as a coachman, and, I am 

 proud to say, one of the best whips of his day. He gave me many 

 opportunities of driving a team. I will not, however, enter into all 

 the details of my youthful career, but proceed to state, that at the early age 

 of seventeen I was sent nightly with the Norwich and Ipswich Mail as far 

 as Colchester, a distance of fifty-two miles. Never having previously 

 travelled beyond Whitechapel Church, on that line of road, the change was 



