COACHING IN CEYLON 175 



an hour, and suppose it harnessed. The 

 wheels were manned, the other horse pulHng ; 

 but the dun hung back so from his collar 

 that his hind-quarters began to slip under his 

 outer trace. I stopped this by standing on 

 the trace, and then he tried the other side, 

 and actually got pardy under the pole. The 

 jabber of the natives, the shrieks of the 

 ladles, and the curses of the driver can be 

 imagined. At last the latter ordered the 

 horse to be removed and sent back to 

 Kalutara. Another horse, probably one of 

 those which had just done a stage, was 

 fetched, and we were at last under way. 



Always being anxious to learn, and 

 thinking they probably had some local 

 means of ''Rarefying" such brutes at the 

 terminus, I asked the driver what would 

 be done with the dun on his arrival 



