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danger, and lie will also be got past any object 

 which may frighten him much easier, and the 

 chances of having a fight with him are thus 

 reduced to a minimum. Always avoid a fight 

 if possible by every means in your power, for 

 instance, if a carriage is coming very fast to- 

 wards you, either from behind or in front, and 

 you think it calculated to frighten your pupil 

 very much, you can by raising your hand 

 show the coachman that you wish him to drive 

 quietly until he has passed you, and you will 

 find that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred 

 he is civil enough to comply with yom^ mute 



request, but the hundredth deserves Well, 



perhaps the less said about his deserts the 

 better, for I suppose it is impossible to find a 

 flock of human beings without one black sheep 

 amongst them, above all amongst grooms and 

 coachmen, who as a class are the most ignorant 

 and bigoted men on the face of the earth ; there 

 are, however, some few trustworthy excellent 

 men among them, but they are very few and 

 far between. 



