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less driver may hitch it up tight some day and leave 

 it like that. 



The Driving 



Having seen that the harness is all right, we may 

 say a few words about the Driving. It is well known 

 that there is a great difference in drivers. While 

 one will bring his horses in from their day's work 

 hot and exhausted, another who has done just as 

 much with them will return with them cool and 

 comfortable and not over-tired. The reason is that 

 one is a good and careful driver, while the other is 

 a bad and careless one, who has no business to have 

 charge of a horse at all. 



If you ask me what makes the difference, I should 

 say that it depends more than anything else on sym- 

 pathy with his animals. To the bad driver the horses 

 are merely machines, out of which he tries to get all 

 he can with no regard to their feelings. To the good 

 driver, on the other hand, they are intelligent fellow- 

 workers whom he treats with sympathy and con- 

 sideration. In the former case it would be wise for 

 the master to make a few inquiries along the line his 

 man travels, and in nine cases out often he will find 

 that he is always either gossiping at a friend's or 

 inside a public-house. All the time he wastes on 

 himself he forces his horses to make up for on the 

 road. Warn him, and it it continues dismiss him 

 and find an honest man. 



We will point out a few common mistakes into 

 which drivers are apt to fall, and the way in which 

 the work may be lightened for the workers. 



Firstly, when you are about to start, it is a great 

 mistake if the first signal the horse receives is a heavy 

 cut with the whip. It must never be forgotten that 

 the horse is a very nervous and sensitive animal, and 



