162 * DRR'ING AS I FOUND IT. 



steel bits, pole chains, etc., to prevent them from rusting, 

 and two chain traces about 7 feet long, made with a 

 hook and eye at each end. They can be used for lead 

 or TNheel, pnd they oan be made any length, and if re- 

 quired can be used temporarily as a pole chain. Using 

 them tij getlier they will be found useful as lead traces if 

 the assistance of an extra horse is required when ascend- 

 ing hills or mountains. 



When starting out on a coaching trip to be well 

 equipped is lialf the journey. The harness should be 

 well inspected, especially if it has been in use any length 



of time^ and if buclde worn or weak in any ])lace 

 have it repaired and streng-thened. Now, from my own 

 experience of coaching in England I must say that 

 coach owners, both public and private, use the very best 

 harness that they can get. It is to their interest to do 

 so. It lasts longer, looks better and is not so liable to 

 break. It is well finished, smooth made, fits as it ought 

 to, and therefore not irritating to the horses, far different 

 and a much superior article to that recommended and 

 sold by an enterprising firm in New York as road har- 

 ness, but which is used almost exclusively by omnibus 

 proprietors on account of its cheapness. 



