28 DRIVING AS I FOUND IT. 



to mention, there were none of them to my knowledge 

 at any time during their career, private coachmen, but 

 they served their apprenticesliip and learnt the art 

 which brought them prominently before the public 

 as stage coachmen, or ijnore commonly speaking, omni- 

 bus drivers. 



The Petersburg driver with his bells and sleigh 

 is equally a coachman in his way. The Canadian, reck- 

 lessly as it appears to us, crosses his corduroy roads, 

 drives over half-formed bridges or dowm declivities 

 with his pole three feet above his horses heads in a 

 way none here could do it. The "conducteur" of a 

 Paris diligence brings his five horses with his "town" 

 behind them in a trot into the inn yard at Calais. 

 All three are coachmen in their way and yet none 

 of them could i>erform the parts of the other. I have 

 no doubt but to perform each of their duties well 

 requires about an equal share of intellect and practice. 



It is quite evident by what I have already said, 

 that driving, to do it well, should be learned scienti- 

 fically, and that there is much more danger in trusting 

 ourselves in the hands of persons ignorant of these 

 matters than is generally supposed. 



The starting of the Coaching Club in New York has 

 been the means of bringing out some very excellent 

 gentlemen coachmen which undoubtedly renders those 



