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attempted. Here is a proof of what fine hands and 

 horses properly bitted can do. Look at Batty or the 

 late Ducrow driving, or rather riding and driving, 

 their horses with long reins round the arena : there 

 is also a proof of what hands and proper training 

 can do with the same animal we see ]>ulled and 

 hauled about, whipped and punished by animals on 

 two legs, with scarcely more intellect than their 

 quadruped victims. The Petersburg driver, with his 

 bells and sleigh, is equally a coachman in his way. 

 The Canadian recklessly, as it appears to us, crosses 

 his corduroy roads, drives over half-formed bridges, 

 or down declivities, with his pole three feet above his 

 horses' heads, in a way none here could do it. The 

 conducteur of the Paris diligence brings his five horses, 

 with his town behind them, in a trot into the inn- 

 yard at Calais. All three are coachmen in their way, 

 and, mutatis miitaiidis^ none of them could perform 

 the parts of the other. I have no doubt but to do 

 each well requires about an equal share of intellect 

 and practice. 



I trust, b}' what I have already said, I have shown 

 that driving, to do it well, should be learnt scientifi- 

 cally, and that there is much more danger in trusting 

 ourselves in the hands of persons ignorant of these 

 matters than is generally supposed. My object has 

 been not to instruct, but to induce some abler person 

 to do so. If I succeed in this desirable object, I can 

 only say I shall read such a work with much interest; 

 and, aware as I am that I have much to learn, I 

 doubt not, if such a work is written by one qualified 

 for the task, I shall be convinced I have much more 

 to learn than I at present imagine. I hope the 



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