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time to make a man what I call a coachman than it 

 does to make a horseman, there can be no doubt but 

 there are numberless men who ride on horseback, and 

 who can drive a horse, a pair, or four, who could not 

 ride a steeple-race. This arises from the want of 

 practising the latter; and the probable reason why 

 so few men, comparatively, do practise it is that they 

 would be frightened to death to attempt it. Now, our 

 not-yet-to-be-forgotten friend Swiggins, Junior, might 

 guide, I do not say drive, a pair of horses somehow ; 

 put him on Lottery, and, fine-tempered animal as he 

 is, and easy as he is to sit upon, let him take one of 

 his five-and-twenty feet swings, depend upon it 

 Swiggins would not be in his saddle on landing ; or 

 place him on Peter Simple, and set him going, he 

 would take him faster and further from papa and 

 mamma than ever the hopes of the family went before 

 — so, in truth, he would many a better man. This in 

 no way militates against or disproves my opinion, 

 that it requires more time and experience to make a 

 coachman than a horseman. To bring a coach up 

 from Brighton to the centre of London in the time and 

 in the style that for so many years Snow did, is at- 

 tended with a little more difficulty than people gene- 

 rally imagine ; and to steer a horse, and he perhaps 

 an uncertain one, four miles across country as 

 Oliver can, comes within the scope of but few men's 

 capabilities. Li stating two particular names, I beg 

 to exculpate myself from any charge of being thought 

 in any way as lessening the merit of others who 

 follow the same pursuits, whether as coachmen or 

 steeple-race riders. In each capacity there are a few 

 first-rate artists, all of whom, upon the Avhole, may 

 be one as good as the other. Some may in a par- 



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