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equally ; and there are very few pairs which do not occa- 

 sionally want a little reminding of their duties. A constant 

 change from one side to the other is a prevention of those 

 tricks and bad habits which horses get into if they are 

 kept to one side only. The coachman should, therefore, 

 change them every now and then, and back again, so as to 

 make what was a puller from the pole, rather bear towards 

 it than otherwise when put on the other side." 



There is a certain animation of manner on the part of 

 the driver which, without being noisy or demonstrative, 

 keeps a team lively and cheerful at work, while another 

 driver would not be able to get them to nearly so good a 

 pace with even more labor to himself, and more fatigue to 

 them. To attain this correspondence with one's horse 

 should be the object of every person who attempts to 

 become a fine driver. No such influence can be had over 

 a horse which is not light in hand, and sprightly in his 

 action, — that is, in the condition which is best and most eas- 

 ily attained by the suppling for the saddle described in the 

 chapter on that subject. Some of the advantages of this 

 are, that it gives the horse more style, — that is, a higher, 

 more graceful step, a better carriage of the head and tail, 

 and generally a more lithe appearance. It has consider- 

 able influence in causing the horses of a double team to 

 step together in measured time. This must of course 

 depend very much on their relations as to size and form, 

 l»Ml it will do more than any other mode of training to 

 equalize their steps, as it renders them very sensitive to 

 the least action of the hand, and as the trotting of one 

 horse will produce a slight reaction on the band, it must 

 have an equal effect on the mouth of the other horse with 

 which the hand is equally connected. 



FouR-iN-HAND DRIVING. — With respect to coupling 

 four-horse teams, the heads, particularly those of the 



