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agin it," as Mr. Verdant Green's scout told me when he walked on the grass 

 in the quad of Brazenface. A bent body is not graceful, nor should the 

 hand be thrust out in front of the body, in which position the arm will 

 soon tire. Self-taught drivers are very common, but no one who desires to 

 drive well ought to trust to practice alone. There is a right and a wrong 

 waj' of doing most things, and the self-taught man usually selects the wrong 

 one. There are in London several good coachmen who give lessons, and 

 from one of them more will be learned in a week than can be picked up in 

 a year of unaided practice. 



The writer of the foregoing omitted to refer to the hind action of a 

 harness horse, I will therefore supplement his excellent article by 

 stating that a horse cannot either look well or go well in harness 

 unless he has hind action equally good with the fore. Good hind 

 action is looked for in hacks and hunters, but doubly is it desirable in 

 the harness horse. Yet, how seldom do we see it ! We continually 

 see good and sometimes perfect shoulder and knee action with bad hock 

 and hip action. 



