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back, and, as they are quite loose, he makes a tre- 

 mendous plunge to get somewhere away from the 

 scene of his discomfort, and not improbably the 

 Smiths are picked out of various hedges and off of 

 sundry fence pickets, according as chance has dis- 

 seminated them. 



The best way to learn to drive is to drive, and 

 not to stick to the one horse which will tolerate your 

 eccentricities, but to shift as often as possible, taking 

 the rough with the smooth; free-goers and slug- 

 gards ; the tricky and the sedate. Advice and dem- 

 onstration can carry you along only so far, the 

 rest of it is all practice and observation. Much can 

 be learned by watching a first-class performer, and 

 by copying his apparently effortless methods, study- 

 ing the reasons for them, experimenting with all 

 sorts of angles, both advancing and backing, and 

 cultivating your eye to a prompt appreciation of 

 distance and direction. 



One of the last things you will learn, and one of 

 the greatest obstructions to advance until it is ap- 

 preciated, is the fact that too m|uch is attempted 



