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will also liave their carriage horses and harness neatly 

 turned out, be properly and safely driven by a man 

 who /looks like a coachman, instead of getting one 

 who does not know how to do either, and who will 

 probably be asked by some knowing fellow, "Hello, 

 there, who feeds the pigs when you are out?" Or, 

 "I sny neighbor, how much extra does your boss give 

 you for milking?" An untaught, stupid house ser- 

 vant plagues and mortifies one by his awkwardness 

 but a coachman with similar characteristics, should 

 never be trusted at large without a string and collar 

 about his neck to keep him off coachboxes. 



I have in the foregoing page only paid a just tribute 

 to the merits of the coachman of ladies or men of 

 large fortunes, but I must at the same time remark 

 that I never yet saw a gentleman's coachman who 

 could drive four horses that he had been unaccus- 

 tomed to drive. Thej make the worst stage coach- 

 men of any men who have been in the habit of driving 

 at all. They have been so used to horses all matched 

 in step and ti'inper that they :ne absolutely lost with 

 any other. Coachmanshii) is therefore to be shown in 

 various ways as well as the want of it, and is exhibited 

 under as various circumstances. Take, for instance, 

 those well-known knights of the whip, Fownes, the 

 late Selby, Cracknel, Huble and others too numerous 



