FOUR-IN-HAND DRIVING 



Why not be independent and original in all 

 things, thinking and acting for one's self, heeding 

 advice when found good, but following only that 

 which common-sense and unbiased experiment 

 prove to be most natural and most practical ? 



The main thing about driving four-in-hand is 

 to get up and drive four horses, learning by ex- 

 perience and profiting by mistakes. The man 

 who does this and persistently keeps at it, with 

 all kinds of teams, will make a far more genu- 

 inely good coachman than he of rule-of-thumb 

 methods and so-called scientific theories and 

 fancy touches. There is just so much good 

 material to every dress ; the rest is trimmings, 

 frills, and fallals, like the absurd " opposition 

 loops " on thumb, finger, and wrist, which so 

 many of our " flash " amateur and professional 

 whips essay. These gentry go through as many 

 manoeuvres in turning a corner as if they were 

 playing a fiddle in a street band, though it will 

 be noticed that they generally take to such antics 

 only when the team is very " unanimous " and 

 knows the way, and the driver knows the way 

 and knows the horses know " the way." Other- 

 wise, like the poor girl in the song, whose " shoes 

 were full of feet," the steersman's " hands will be 



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