io8 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



or with a weak-wrlsted man, almost essential 

 to pleasure and comfort. 



Thus we see that the essentials of orood driv- 

 Ing are : first, well-fitting harness properly put 

 on ; second, to make the left hand the main 

 Instrument ; third, judicious use of the whip ; 

 fourth, a light touch. Other qualifications there 

 are, such as nerve and experience, but these 

 no writer can do more than suggest. Nothing- 

 has been said of the horse to drive, since most 

 of my readers will have to do the best they can 

 with the horses they have, and this Is, after all, 

 where coachmanship comes in. Nearly any one 

 can drive well-broken animals on good roads, 

 after a fashion, but It takes a coachman to 

 make moderate or Indifferent horses do their 

 work well over every kind of ground. And 

 after all it Is worth while ; for the enjoyment of 

 driving a horse we have ourselves made, is one 

 of the many pleasures of driving as a fine art. 



