" IT IS AN HONOUR THAT I DKEAMT NOT OF. V3 



more to be held than a locomotive engine, for which 

 reason we should never get their steam up too high. 



Having got thus far in the Observations on Driving, 

 I must now do what I ought to have done at the 

 commencement ; that is, show my motive for com- 

 mencing at all: I have sometimes indulged in the habit 

 of snatching up my pen, scribbling a few sheets of 

 paper, and then beginning to make choice of a subject 

 to write upon. I have not, however, in this instance 

 been quite as remiss as I often am, for I really had a 

 fixed motive in commencing my first line. It was 

 neither more nor less than this I consider a 

 regular treatise on driving, in its general sense of 

 the word, would be a work of great utility; and 

 all I intend or hope to do by the few pages I 

 propose to write on the subject is to show that 

 driving is not quite comprehended in sitting behind a 

 horse, or given number of horses, with the reins in 

 the driver's hand, and trusting to Providence and 

 good luck for getting along in safety by so doing. My 

 hope is to induce some competent person to publish a 

 work of the description to which I allude. I do not 

 mean a mere theoretical author, but one who, from 

 practice and experience, is acquainted with all the 

 minutiae; of the business that constitutes the finished 

 coachman. I have been generally accounted in my 

 own person a very tolerable waggoner ; but I am de- 

 terred from attempting a work of the kind myself, 

 from having just sense enough to be aware that 

 if I could drive four horses about four times as well 

 as I can, I could point out many others who would 

 then be four times as good coachmen as myself, 

 though I have handled some very rum ones in private 

 and public carriages, have met with my accidents 



