CHAPTER VII. 



PART I. , 



BY THE LATE MAJOR HENRY DlXON. 



THIS chapter is designed to give a few hints, which long experi- 

 ence has suggested, to a young coachman who is anxious to 

 learn to drive. 



Having ordered or bought your coach and harness both 

 very difficult proceedings, and in the selection of which I 

 should most strongly advise the very best advice that can be 

 procured the next thing is to get your team together, and to 

 do. the thing comfortably and well you should have half-a- 

 dozen horses, colour and size, of course, according to taste ; but 

 it would be well to have two good wheelers and two good 

 leaders, the spare two to be used as occasion requires in any 

 place in the coach. The sizing of the team will ever be a 

 vexed question, some preferring the wheelers to be higher than 

 the leaders, some that they should be all of the same height, 

 while others say the leaders should be the tallest. There can 

 be no great advantage or importance in any of these arrange- 



