XIV CONTENTS. 



SECTION XXX. p. 193. 



Driving. The author's late letter on the subject to the Sporting 

 Magazine. Every one for himself and God for us all — the devil 

 take the hindmost. Associations recommended. The merit of 

 certain coach proprietors and quality dragsmeu. A legislative 

 call for the general rate of twelve miles per hour. Coach racing 

 on the roads. Accidents. Furious driving through the crowded 

 streets of the metropolis. The author's hair-breadth escape. 

 His funereal paragraph on speculation. Rapid whirl round cor- 

 ners of our swell gig-drivers. Eight to ten miles per hour suffi- 

 cient speed for our stage coaches. Horses changed and har- 

 nessed, light or dark, in a certain number of seconds! Mortality 

 among coach horses in the hot season. As to turning off worked 

 coachers for improvement. Driving in single harness. The old 

 1 Whip, or Four in Hand Club.' Six in hand. Bob Allen. 

 Tommy Onslow, his eloge. The driver of a buggy (solus) yet 

 ever to be found on his own side, and why. Trotting the 

 pace for a single or pair of horses, p. 193 — 205. 



SECTION XXXI. p. 205. 



Driving continued. The author's lowly pretensions. The high- 

 est and best existing authority — Nimrod, of the Sporting 

 Magazine. Selections from thence. Never turn a loaded coach 

 short, even at a slow pace. As to the trot and canter in harness. 

 Various qualities in coach horses, p. 205 — 210. 



SECTION XXXII. p. 210. 



Management of high blowers. Use of the bearing rein. Tem- 

 per in horses to be regarded. A horse fancying his place should 

 have it. Affectionate partners should not be parted. Tender 

 and hard mouthed horses, expedients to hold the latter. Re- 

 marks on these by the author, with a remedy. Kickers. The 

 hip-strap. Speaking to coach horses, long since out of print, 

 but useful. Anecdote of a mail coachman, who ought to have 

 been taught common sense under the most effective discipline at 

 the halbert. Night work. Lamp light treacherous. Golden 

 Rules of Nimrod for a night coachman. Anecdote of two 

 horses which have stood the coach work more than ten years. 

 Abram Stragler, of the old Colchester, successor of Abram Met- 

 calf, who commenced driving about the year 1740. Good flesh 

 upon a coach horse the thing. Periodical purges beneficial to 

 all kinds of horses, kept at hard meat. Rate of work in fast and 

 slow coaches. Broken legs. The megrim and the lick. Legs 

 and loins broken in the late insane attempts at increase of speed. 

 Blegrim, or swooning in the collar. The lick. Nimrod's excel- 

 lent correspondent Mr. Buxton. Various useful rules, p. 210 

 —219. 



