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cannot set off to advantage the trap that is behind them. The harness 

 has to be regulated in style to match the horses as well as the vehicle. 

 A rakish tandem set cannot be adapted to a brougham, nor can a 

 barouche follow a set of tan. 



The trap, no matter of what description, must be built on lines 

 graceful and evenly proportioned, and unless it be tackled to the pony, 

 the horse, pair, or team it is suitable for, the effect of the whole will be 

 spoiled. Then comes the last, but far from being the least, requisite— 

 the coachman. That functionary must sit behind his horses in position 

 such as will make it appear he can drive, and when he sets his horses 

 going he must prove it, and unless he does the whole turn-out is bereft 

 of interest to the man of taste. 



The coachman, be he gentleman, professional, or servant, should be 

 dressed in accord ; one should not aj^e the other. 



As with the points of a horse or a hound so it is with a trap. No one 

 can put it together properly on paper. Neither can driving be 

 taught with a pen. The only way a man can learn to drive is to get 

 instructions, with a pair of horses before him, from a man who can. 

 A practical example or a good pattern is what is required to teach 

 him how to put together a trap. I shall therefore refer to a few 

 traps which I bear in mind as having been, what I call, properly turned- 

 out and driven. They are all well remembered by many others besides me, 

 for they came from in or near Waterford, where I spent most of my life. 



The Misses Barron, of Newtown, had a brougham very perfectly 

 turned-out with a pair of bay horses, which went a good pace. The 

 brougham and open carriage of Mrs. Eoberts, of Weston, with her stately 

 grey horse, moved slowly, but in orthodox style. Thirty years ago Mr. 

 William Fitzgerald had a very smart jaunting car, under which he 

 ■drove a big roan horse that ten miles an hour was nothing to. He 

 was one of the very finest and best carriage horses I ever saw, and a 

 team of such would be cheap at a thousand guineas. 



Mr. John Snow had the smartest of " outsides." Horse, harness, and 

 car, with the owner driving, was indeed a sporting turn-out. 



Sir Eobert Paul did all things well, but nothing better than in the way 

 he had his carriages sent from Ballyglan. He had a pair of bay thorough- 

 bred mares for many years. Then he had two big chestnuts for a long 

 time. Each pair was a perfect match, but both were of a totally 

 different stamp. They could and did go the pace, and that with 

 scarcely changing a leg. so perfect and even was their action. Mr. 

 Dawson Milward's double dog-cart was workmanlike and had a real 

 sporting ring about it. His well-matched greys rattled along the 

 quay of Waterford without a turned hair, although they had come 

 fifteen miles from Tullagher under an hour and a half. Mr. Ambrose 

 Oongreve, unlike the other gentlemen I have mentioned, seldom drove 

 his own trap ; but he knew as well as they how things should 

 be done, with the result that the Mount Congreve carriages were sent 

 into Waterford in a style that would be admired in Hyde Park. 



