. "Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. Horses; Horsemanship. 186 Centaur A CHAPTER OF r is difficult nowadays to take up a daily or weekly journal without seeing one or more reports of Accidents, such as " Pam Over," " Upset/' " Thrown in the Hunting Field," "Sad Collision with a Steam Tramcar," "A Careless Horseman," '' A Drunken Driver," " Overloading,"
. "Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. Horses; Horsemanship. 186 Centaur A CHAPTER OF r is difficult nowadays to take up a daily or weekly journal without seeing one or more reports of Accidents, such as " Pam Over," " Upset/' " Thrown in the Hunting Field," "Sad Collision with a Steam Tramcar," "A Careless Horseman," '' A Drunken Driver," " Overloading," " Wrong Side," " Furious Driving," &c., &c., whereby serious, and in many cases, fatal in- juiies have been iuflicted upon either the animal or the people, or both. It is hoped the careful perusal of, and attention to, the foregoing Chapters and rules, will at least reduce the num- ber of such notices, and the risks of the road in particular, to the permanent comfort of the horseman and the general safety of the public. The following Extracts, taken from the daily journals, we give by way of practical illustration, and the more forcibly to drive our arguments home. The " cuttings," we trust, will point their own moral to the reader:— CAERIAGE ACCIDENTS. While the Prince of Wales was driving to Sifeie given by Lady Murray, at Cannes, the carriage ran against a heap of stones. One of the shafts was broken, but no further damage was caused, and another carriage having been sent for, his Royal Highness proceeded to the fete. The Empress Eugenie visited the Imperial tomb at Chislehurst. Whilst alighting from her carriage the Empress fell and rather seriously injured her right leg. As Dr. Norris was being driven down Newhall Hill in a brougham, the horse feU, and Dr. Norris was thrown out. He fortunately escaped without any serious injury, though the coach-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have be
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