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time to make a man what I call a coachman than it 

 does to make a horseman, there can be no doubt but 

 there are numberless men who ride on horseback, and 

 who can drive a horse, a pair, or four, who could not 

 ride a steeple-race. This arises from the want of 

 practising the latter; and the probable reason why 

 so few men, comparatively, do practise it is that they 

 would be frightened to death to attempt it. Now, our 

 not-yet-to-be-forgotten friend Swiggins, Junior, might 

 guide, I do not say drive, a pair of horses somehow ; 

 put him on Lottery, and, fine-tempered animal as he 

 is, and easy as he is to sit upon, let him take one of 

 his five-arid-twenty feet swings, depend upon it 

 Swiggins would not be in his saddle on landing ; or 

 place him on Peter Simple, and set him going, he 

 would take him faster and further from papa and 

 mamma than ever the hopes of the family went before 

 so, in truth, he would many a better man. This in 

 no way militates against or disproves my opinion, 

 that it requires more time and experience to make a 

 coachman than a horseman. To bring a coach up 

 from Brighton to the centre of London in the time and 

 in the style that for so many years Snow did, is at- 

 tended with a little more difficulty than people gene- 

 rally imagine ; and to steer a horse, and he perhaps 

 an uncertain one, four miles across country as 

 Oliver can, comes within the scope of but few men's 

 capabilities. In stating two particular names, I beg 

 to- exculpate myself from any charge of being thought 

 in any way as lessening the merit of others who 

 follow the same pursuits, whether as coachmen or 

 steeple-race riders. In each capacity there are a few 

 first-rate artists, all of whom, upon the whole, may 

 be one as good as the other. Some may in a par- 



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