138 DRIVING AS I FOUND IT. 



will tire Mm out the first hour. As it is seldom we get 

 two horses gaited alike how can we expect to get four 

 and with the same amount of speed? We will suppose 

 that three out of the four horses can go 10 miles an 

 hour with ease and the fourth horse eight miles an hour. 

 Now, if we drive nine miles the first hour the slow horse 

 is going or properly speaking being pulled along a mile 

 an hour faster than Avliat he is really capable of doing 

 easily, consequently to do that extra mile in the hour 

 he could not do any work, therefore the other three 

 horses must do liis work for him, making it harder for 

 them and helping to tire them out, and the slow horse 

 is completely done up. Now, if we had gone only seven 

 miles an hour, all four horses would be doing their equal 

 share of the work (always provided they were properly 

 put too and driven) and going within themselves, doing 

 less than what they were really capable of doing. They 

 would finish fresh and be ready to go another seven 

 miles, and if in moderate condition, repeat the under- 

 taking. 



I shall never forget a scene I witnessed two years ago. 

 A gentleman arrived late one eveniug at the hotel 

 stables with a four-in-hand break. He was accompanied 

 by two gentlemen friends and a coachman. They looked 

 tired and appeared to be in distress. From a conversa- 

 tion I had with the coachman, it seems that they had 



