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Driving (1903)

Ware, Francis M, Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU · New York : Doubleday, Page & Company · leaf 67

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n the present instance apply it fromthe standpoint of the English school); but there are one ortwo false impressions which seem to have obtained—oneis that the stage-driver always holds his reins in both handsand cannot shorten his hold or take a point without raisinghis hands up to his head, on… … STAGE-DRIVING IN THE WEST over the little finger of the left hand and palmed upward,the off-side reins to be readily taken at any moment underand over the forefinger and palmed downward, the lead-reins being above the wheel. I do not for a moment claimthis to be graceful, but I am positive that I…

Driving of horse-drawn vehicles · Horse-drawn vehicles · Carriages and carts · Harnesses · Chr 1903 · PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor)

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