. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. 524 The Book or the Horse. Park, or capacious and double for the happy pair with a full quiver. It is the warmest carriage in winter, and is cool, with all the windows open, in summer. It requires no second man-servant, although there is room beside the driving-groom for a page. It is equally useful for shopping on the stones ; or, fitted with
. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. 524 The Book or the Horse. Park, or capacious and double for the happy pair with a full quiver. It is the warmest carriage in winter, and is cool, with all the windows open, in summer. It requires no second man-servant, although there is room beside the driving-groom for a page. It is equally useful for shopping on the stones ; or, fitted with a luggage basket, as a conveyance in the country, or to and from the railway station. In the Park, and at other assemblies of the fashionable, the windows of a brougham are so " hung on the line" as to present a fair face at the very best point of view for admiration and for conversation. For these reasons it is worth while to make the chapter on the brougham the text for a brief sketch of the rise and progress to perfection of English pleasure-carriages. The brougham, invented by the great and eccentric genius Lord Chancellor Brougham, whose name it bears, was the consequence of his finding his coachman and footman not. BROUGHAM. ready one day with a chariot and pair, after a series of nights of waiting for the poli- tician, orator, author, and man of fashion. He asked his coachmaker for a close carriage, which one man could manage and one horse could draw, not so ponderous as the pill- box, the one-horse chariot of apothecaries, which was a standing subject for the jokes of wits of the time of George III. The first attempts were very heavy affairs, more of the present street-cab style than anything else ; but, when taken up by the fathers of the West-end trade, they soon became, in spite of much ridicule, the rage. The brougham killed the cabriolet, just as the stanhope gig and the cabriolet killed the curricle. The social results of this one-horse "carriage o
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