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many minutes it takes them to reach the next. There is 

 another way by which a practised eye can tell at what rate he 

 is going, and that is by looking down at his front wheel and 

 seeing at what rate it is revolving. By this he can judge far 

 better than by looking at the horses, though the unpractised 

 eye would learn nothing till experience taught the lesson. 



The way to drive a stage, and particularly a long one, is, not 

 to allow the leaders to do too much work on the flat, to be 

 sure and take the draught off them on going down a hill, and 

 only to call upon them for a little extra assistance in going 



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Only call on them for extra assistance going uphill. 



uphill. A man who comes to a short pitch when driving fast 

 will find that, if he takes the draught off his leaders by pulling 

 his reins, say, two inches or two and a half inches back, and 

 placing them on the top finger of his left hand and pressing 

 them down with his thumb, when he comes to the bottom of 

 the hill, he will have nothing to do but just raise his thumb, 

 and there are the horses, having caught hold of their bars, 

 ready to assist in mounting the next hill. 



