How to break, ride and drive a horse : containing a complete treatise on the horse, describing the most useful horses for business, and the best horses for the road. Also giving in by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Horses, Driving of horse-drawn vehicles
Publisher: New York : F. Tousey
Published: 1898-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

HOW TO BREAK, RIDE AND DRIVE A HORSE. 33

absolutely' stlttia<2:; but, as I said before, for iii^ht work, or as a defense afijainst rain, it is.very useful, and it will, on ordinary occasions, hold several dogs, either for shooting or coursing.

The Headed Dennet is a very uncomfortable kind of close carriage, because the head is obliged lo be made very high and shallow; the wind, therefore, beats the ram in very much, and it is not nearly so good a protection as a gig-umbrella, which may be made a very tolerable prot^ectiou from rain.

Open Four-wheeled Carriages consist of the britschka, tlie barouche, the various phaetons, and the sociable.

The Britschka and the Barou(mie may be considered together, as they are alike in springs and general principle, though diflerent in the shape of the body. In the former this is straight at ihe lower edge (called the rocker), and with a very low driving-box, it being generally used for travehng post. In the latter the rocker is boat-like, and the coach-box is raised considerably above the level of the inside seats. Both have a single head behind, and a knee-boct in front, wliich either turns down and protects the inside passengers' legs, or when turned back it serves to protect the two vho ride with their backs to the horses. The britschka generally has a rumble behind, but the barouche is not often supplied with that appendage. Both are on C springs, with elliptic springs under, and both have a perch.

The Various Phaetons, including the Sociable, are difficult to define, but ihey are generally distinguished by the absence of tlio C springs and perch. They have almost always elliptic sprinji^s, similar in principle to those shown under the C springs, but lighter in make. Sometimes, however, as in the Mail Phaeton, they have them of a difllerent construction, tiiere being four springs behind and three before, constituting in the first case a square, and in the second three sides of that figure. These are attached, as in the Stanhope, behind; and, like the Dennet, before; but that they generally have leather braces instead of iron shackles. There is also a perch m the regular Mail fTiaeton, whicii is, however, sometimes dispensed witii in tlie smaller kinds built in the same general form, but with elliptic springs, and then called Stanhope Phaetons— lucus a non lucendo, that is, because they have dispensed with Stanhope springs. This is a curious exemplification of the 71071 seqvitur, and the strongest with which I am acquainted; for it really is the fact, that the phaeton with the Sianhope springs is called a Mail Phaeton, and without them a Stanhope Phaeton.

The bodies of these phaetons are of every form which can

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