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CHAPTER IV. 



THE COACH-HORSE. 

 BY THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G. 



So much difference of opinion is there as to what is the best 

 and pleasantest style of coach-horse to drive, that we are not 

 likely to find ourselves in agreement with all our readers upon 

 this subject. The old stage-coachmen used to say that they 

 liked the big heavy horse for a hilly team, and the small, com- 

 pact, quick-stepping, fast-galloping little horse for a flat stage. 

 We must remember that in those days, when the coach was the 

 only conveyance of the country, the loads were very heavy, and 

 no doubt the big, heavy plodding horse put his shoulder well 

 to it, and got the coach up the hill with less trouble to him- 

 self and his coachman, than the smaller and lighter team of 

 horses would have done. In these days, when the road coaches 



