414 THE SALUTE CH. XVII 



The Salute. — When public-coaches meet, the 

 coachmen salute each other with the whip. In 

 early days, it was customary to move the whip-hand 

 to the right, keeping it low, as shown at A, Plate 

 XXXI. ; later, it became the fashion to raise the hand 

 to the level of the face, as at B ; and finally, about 

 fifteen years ago, the manner shown at C, which 

 resembles a soldier's 'present sabre,' was adopted. 

 Corbett (p. 248) calls the oldest fashion : ' a neat 

 meeting,' and the second one : 'a muffish meeting - .' 



A person driving a private coach should always 

 make a salute with the whip to a public-coach, when 

 meeting one. If there are ladies with whom he is 

 acquainted, on a coach, he should raise his hat, 

 passing his whip into his left hand. 



It is hardly necessary to say that a man when 

 driving should always take oft his hat to a lady ; it 

 is in bad taste merely to raise his whip in place of 

 so doing. If he has not hands enough to spare one 

 for his hat, he should continue to practise driving, 

 until he can find one. 



Note to page 391. — Since the issue of the early copies of this 

 edition, I have been told that the so-called rabbit-bitten hollies are 

 not really bitten by rabbits, but that the irregularities are the result 

 of injuries to the bark produced artificially by cutting. 



After correspondence with several persons who ought to be familiar 

 with the subject, I understand that rabbits and sometimes rats, do 

 make the marks, but that they are also made with the knife on the 

 growing shoot, for the purpose of producing the well-known sticks. 

 In both cases the wounds of the bark are healed by growth and their 

 edges rounded into the forms which are familiar to us. 



