^Nimrod ' 



for fast work, was given by the author of these papers at 

 the request of an eminent London coach-proprietor : * First 

 requisite, action ; second, sound legs and feet, with power 

 and breeding equal to the nature and length of the ground 

 he will work upon. Third, good wind, as the power of 

 respiration is called, without which the first and second 

 qualifications will not avail, in very fast work, for any length 

 of time. A clear- winded coach-horse will always keep his 

 condition, consequently his health, because he does not feel 

 distress on a reasonable length of ground. The hunter and 

 the racer are good or bad, chiefly in proportion to their 

 powers of respiration ; and such is the case with the road 

 coach-horse. The most proper food, then, for a coach- 

 horse in fast work is that which affords him sufficient nourish- 

 ment, without having an injurious effect on his wind ; in 

 other words, that which does not impair his respiratory 

 organs by pressing on them.' 



It may probably surprise many of our readers to be 

 informed of the extent to which individual persons in England 

 embark their capital in what is termed the coaching-line. 

 Mr. Chaplin, who is the occupier of the five following 



* yards,' as they are termed, in London — namely, those of 

 the Spread Eagle and Cross Keys, Gracechurch Street ; 

 the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane ; the White Horse, 

 Fetter Lane ; and the Angel, behind St. Clement's — has no 



fact, it would now and then happen that the whole team were in darkness. 



* Well over that, sir,' said one of the old school of coachmen to a passenger 

 that sate beside him on the box, having just passed a dangerous bridge on a 

 foggy night ; ' only one eye among us ! ' That ' one ' was his own ! 



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