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after being pulled up, which may make him restless. 

 When horses are put for the first time into coaches, 

 they should have their heads given them. Throat- 

 lashing a young horse, wheeler, or leader, shows 

 great want df judgment. Many horses will go per- 

 fectly quiet as leaders, that will never go at the 

 wheel ; the reason is, they will not bear being con- 

 fined to the pole-piece. All horses that will bear it, 

 particularly young ones, should have their sides fre- 

 quently changed. " 



SECTION XXXIII. 



As I have before observed, our coachmen no lono-er 

 "je-whoo" it, as in the olden times, nor tire their 

 arms in the constant use of the whip upon heavy 

 ill- fed, and jaded teams. Even the " Ya-up" of five 

 and thirty years ago, when coachmen met, has been 

 long since extinct, and our gentlemen of the road 

 now salute each other politely with the hand : but 

 our oracle, Nimrod's correspondent, counsels, and I 

 think justly, that horses should have some notice 

 given them to move or to stop, as well as soldiers. — 

 For example, to be started by " a click or whistle," 

 or any mode the driver may choose, and shall have 

 made conventional between himself and his horses, 

 and to be stopped by some similar notice. Nimrod 

 has found "hallooing" to a horse, when he kicks, 

 to have great effect. I have often experienced such 

 effect. Whipping a vicious horse on the ears, cer- 

 tainly helps to cow him ; but the eyes of too many 

 coach horses, free from vice, are shamefully whipped 



