Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching

The coach which I have selected by way of exemplifying my remarks was the "Warwick Crown Prince," and, at the time I adopted it, was driven by Jack Everett, who was reckoned in...

The selection of horses for draught purposes should be made with a view to the pace at which they are expected to work. You may get a perfect model for harness and draught, but...

To their honour be it said, that there are noblemen and gentlemen in the land, who willingly devote time, energy, and money, to keep the dust flying from the wheels of the real...

"Right as the mail," is an expression which even now conveys an impression of perfection; and what indeed could have been more thoroughly adapted to the work for which it was de...

Coachmen (friends and enemies)--Roadside burial--Old John's holiday--How the mail was robbed--Another method--A visit from a well-known character--A wild-beast attack--Carrier's...

To a man who has a taste for driving, what can be more fascinating than to find himself upon the box of his own drag, with four three-parts-bred, well-matched horses before him,...

The intelligence of the horse, and his judgment in hesitating to perform feats which, if attempted, must result in dangerous accidents, have afforded many proofs of equine sagac...

Although opposition was fierce, certain rules of etiquette and honour were most rigidly observed on the road, which rendered immunity from accidents much more general than would...

In former chapters I have spoken of coachmen and guards, both in the heyday and afternoon of their career--then, once qualified for this line of life, seldom exhibiting an incli...

The Coach and Horses was the sign of a small roadside inn in North Wales, beautifully situated, as far as scenery and landscape were concerned, but as the house was built upon t...

When driving the coaches in the olden time, it frequently happened that I remained for the night at the stage from which I should take the coach back on the following day. On on...

Before the reign of King Bianconi in Ireland, the coaching and all public conveyances were of a most primitive description.[11] I am writing of Ireland fifty years ago, when it...

All matters connected with the management and treatment of horses are better understood in Austria and Hungary than in any other part of the Continent; but even there they have...

ANECDOTES: Coachmen (friends and enemies)--Roadside burial--Old John's holiday--How the mail was robbed--Another method--A visit from a well-known character--A wild-beast attack...