DRIVING AS 1 FOUND IT. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



On nearly every art or science practised by man there 

 lias been instructions, treatises, opinions, criticisms, 

 and I know not what, repeatedly published. They 

 rank from the highly intellectual study of astronomy to 

 the more manual art of making a horseshoe. Nothing 

 scarcely has been thought too insignilicant to fix the 

 attention and call forth the written opinions of tliose 

 conversant with their subject. Horsemanship produced 

 writers of a very early date, varying their instructions 

 and terms used according to the age in which they lived 

 and wrote. But I am not aware that any really good 

 instructions in the art of driving have yet appeared in 

 print. Why driving should have been hitherto con- 

 sidered less worthy of attention as a subject to be 

 written about than horsemanship I cannot explain. 

 That it should be done well, if done at all, I consider 

 most important. If a man rides he rides alone, and 

 has most unquestionably a right to break his own neck 

 if he pleases, but if he is driving others, he certainly 



