144 lUDING. DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



money part you, for with his assistance you 

 may break the wildest spirit that ever tried to 

 kick himself out of his harness. Four younor 

 horses should never be driven together, because 

 it is possible that they may all decide to bolt 

 together, whereas with one or more older horses 

 you may be pretty sure that they will not be 

 able to aofree amoncr themselves what to do. 



No man living can hold four, or for the 

 matter of that, two, horses that mean going ; 

 therefore in dealino- with a team the old Roman 

 maxim, " Divide et Impera," is a good one. 



But let no one think that team drivinof is a 

 dangerous amusement. It is not, for in a team 

 or tandem it is far less likely that your horses 

 w^ill combine against you than when driving a 

 pair. In fact, with a single horse there is the 

 most danger, and with a pair the next. The 

 young gentleman who said he believed it was 

 very difficult to upset a coach w^as probably 

 right, as the following story may illustrate. A 

 friend of mine, whose courage and strength are 

 much in advance of his skill as a driver, sub- 

 scribed to a coach and invited a party to his 

 first drive. Something went wrong before they 

 had gone far and the horses bolted. They 

 galloped down a road for nearly two miles, part ' 

 of the time the off wheel being on the footpath, 

 and part the near wheel in the ditch. At length 



