CH. XXI COACHING CLUB TRIPS 489 



An example ot a card is here given where there 

 are twelve passengers, of whom eight drive, there 

 being only that number of stages. C stands for 

 coachman, B for box-seat. 



For the servants, these trips are a useful test ; it 

 is no slight matter to have four horses in good con- 

 dition, all the harness complete, nothing forgotten, 

 at a certain spot some distance from home, ready 

 exactly on the minute and everything looking neat ; 

 the head coachman who can accomplish it must be a 

 competent man. 



These trips are usually timed at nine miles an 

 hour, which experience has shown is quite fast 

 enough, and a point is made of keeping time closely, 

 not an easy thing over a road unknown, or only par- 

 tially known, to the members driving. 



