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There is another important point in the art of driving, 

 that is (generally) but little heeded, that is, in driving a 

 horse that is liable to interfere, and in fact this difficulty 

 oftener arises from carek'ss driving, than any fault of the 

 horse. You will notice that they seldom cut but one leg, 

 and where two are driven together, or side by side, it is 

 almost invariably the freest or fastest horse that does 

 this; because his head is pulled in from a straight line 

 that he is traveling on, consequently it will be the out- 

 side leg that gets cut; to avoid which his head should 

 be turned by a tight rein a little the other way from the 

 straight line, which will throw the foot he cuts with out 

 instead of in. 



A great many horses, that are used for draft, in the 

 snowy regions, are quite apt in crowding each other off 

 from the road through fear, when the rein does not have 

 much influence over them — which could be remedied by 

 making the sleighs for those districts some six or eight 

 inches wider than they are now used, an improvement 

 that is much needed — especially where they have five 

 or six months' sleighing in each year. This would make 

 a road sufficiently wide for them to travel on without 

 being in fear of falling off into the deep snow. 



Now let us take a glimpse at the second or third class 

 of drivers, and mark the contrast. He mopes along 

 with his horse's heads down about to their knees, and his 

 lines on a level with the same, going over every stone, 

 hole or log that may be in his way, with no other means 

 of quickening their pace except the use of the whip, 

 which will be applied freely; and when his team hap- 

 pens to have life enough to become frightened at any- 



