Excerpt from An Old Coachman's Chatter: With Some Practical Remarks on DrivingIf these pages Should happen to fall into the hands of any Of the many thousand passengers I have had the pleasure of driving, and on whom I hope Father Time has laid benevolent hands, perhaps some of them may recognize scenes which they themselves experienced, and to others memory may bring back the recollection of happy wanderings? Thereby causing renewed pleasure. For, as the poet says: When time, which steals our hours away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past shall stay, And half our joys renew.In the remarks on driving, I do not profess to have written a treatise or to have by any means exhausted the subject - that, indeed, were hard to do, a coachman should be always learning - they are the result of having carefully watched old and experienced hands, together with such instructions as they gave me, followed up by long and continuous practice. I know that some, whose opinions are entitled to the greatest respect, hold different views upon some points, but, at any rate, whether others agree with me or not, they will see, from the examples I have given, that I have practical reasons for all that I advance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.