HOW TO DRIVE ONE HORSE OR A PAIR. 99 



port. Tlie lady I 'allude to had been driving some 

 months, and sat on the driving seat in a very coach- 

 manlike niamier, amd understood perfectly how to hold 

 the reins. We went out, and with some little difficulty 

 got to the park. The lady had been driving and com- 

 plained of being tired. I noticed that from the time we 

 started she had been driving mostly on one rein, and 



even then could not get the horses to keep straight. 

 I changed seats, and had not driven many yards when I 

 found out where the fault was. The cobs were young 

 and improperly bitted, the near one had more ambition, 

 combined with a harder mouth, consequently when driv- 

 ing T\ath a loose rein did most of the work, thus forcing 

 the pole to the off side of the road, necessitating a cer- 

 tain amount of strength, with constant pressure on the 



