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ease to himself, and is less likely to gall and 

 chafe, which will frequently make the best 

 tempered animal fretful and fractious in 

 harness. 



I do not pretend ever to have been a 



i 

 perfect master of this useful, as well as 



fashionable and exhilarating art. I knew 

 my own inferiority, at the same time I could 

 pronounce upon the merits of others ; and 

 though I might not, like that celebrated 

 writer on the road, " Nimrod," tell a coach- 

 man by the manner he drew his right hand 

 glove on the way in which he took hold 

 of the reins and mounted his box would 

 give me some little idea whether he was an 

 adept in the art or not. The consequence 

 and the necessity of paying a strict atten- 

 tion to and acquiring a perfect knowledge 

 of these early rudiments of an art then so 

 much in vogue, I once experienced in a re- 

 markable manner. 



Beginning at the Golden Cross, passing 

 through the city, and making my exit 



