IKTBODUCTIOK. 



Whether a regular preface is of any advantage to a 

 book I am not sufficiently versed in literary matters to 

 determine; still I consider that a proper feeling of re- 

 spect for the driving public calls for something in the 

 shape of an introduction. 



I trust that the public will look over whatever errors 

 co-Sij have slipped into this book, and accept it as a 

 general treatise on driving, with the observation and 

 opinions of a practical man, committed to paper as the 

 ideas suggested themselves, which, if they are taken 

 together, may be thought in some parts useful, in others 

 occasionally amusing, I shall have realized all I could 

 anticipate or wash for. The hints, observations and 

 illustrations contained in this book are not merely those 

 of one who learned for pleasure, but were gathered dur- 

 ing many 3 ears' experience as professional coachman, 

 both in England and in America. 



