Chapter VII: Part 7

Expense of keeping a Carriage, 3

---- ---- keeping a Horse, 11

Extortion, 321

Extra charges made by a coach-builder for all additions, 61

Fares, Hackney Coach, 292-318

Fifteen good points of a coachman, 165-169

Fires, how to manage horses in case of, 272

Foresight of a physician, 137

Form of a Carriage highly important, 65

Genteel man described, a, 135

Gentleman, defined by a negro, 227

Glass coaches, 49

Glasses, coach, 69

Gomersal’s personification of Buonaparte, 219

Granite Pavement, 101

Grass, on sending horses to, 257

Grooming and dressing of horses, 245

Gruel for horses, 239

Guineas not obsolete in accounts, 7

Hackney coaches, choice of, 314

---- ----, origin of, 303

Hackney coachmen, 296, 314

----man’s charge for jobbing a saddle-horse, 14

Hammercloth, 204

Hanway’s Travels, 226

Harness, 119

----, second-hand, 121

Hard-Driving, 185

Hats with gold band, 30

Hay, how to select, 253

Holsters, pistol, to the dickey-box, 123

Horses, choice of, 225

----, hints to purchasers of, 223

----, to preserve the health of, 238-244

----, food and provender of, 249-256

----, of a hackney coach, 305, 306

----, age recommended for carriage, 21

Horse, expense of a saddle, 11

---- balls, 262

----dealers, 45

Horsemen, advice to, 273

Hostler, derivation of the word, 47

Hours, early, 139

Hydrophobia, 83-92

Imperials, 124

Inside handles to Carriages, 77

Inventory, important, 201

Job, to, or hire a Carriage, 54

Jobbing Horses, 44

Knee-boot to Coach box, 135

Lamps, circular, 106

Landau, or Landaulet, 52

Leather, condition of the, 121

Lining of a Coach, its best colour, 71

Letter requiring an immediate answer, when useful, 154

Livery, 26-31

---- stables, 15

Locks to the doors of a Carriage, 76

Luggage, heavy, 322

Macadamised streets truly beneficial, 99-101

Map of London, 172

Markham’s way to wealth, 277

Master, the good, 133

Matching of a horse, 23

Midnight meetings, 138

---- conversation, 141

New road from Paddington to Islington, 173

Newcastle, Duke of, his directions for the management of horses, 230, 246

Nuisances, public, 83-92

Oil, 107

Oil-skin covers, 125

Old Carriages and Chariot, selling of, 62

One-horse Carts the cause of accidents, 187

Open Carriages, 39

Ornaments of Carriages, 104

Paint, spare, 210

Perambulator for measuring distances, 298

Pembroke, Earl of, 251

Plated furniture, of, 105

Posting in Ireland, rates of, 42

Presents to servants, how rendered advantageous to the donor, 25

Price of new Carriages, of various denominations, 16

Profits of a Hackney Coachman, 305

Provender for horses, 255

Proverb, useful old, 46

Punctuality indispensable in a Coachman, 151

Quaife, Mr., Surveyor to the Board of Hackney Coaches, 296

Rattling of the Coach, 205

Reason for Coachmen not liking Collinge’s axle-trees, 96

Regent’s Park, the, 174

Repairs of Carriages, 212

Roads, the commissioners of the, 178

Rochefort, Monsieur R. de, 250

Rough-shodding in frosts, 28

Royal anecdote, 6

Safety braces, 126

Screwing the bolts, 204

Shades, green silk spring sun, 73

Shafts for a single horse _occasionally_ applied to a Chariot, 20

Shakspeare, quotations from, 26

Shoeing, 159

Soft water preferable for a horse’s drink, 252

Spikes to fix on the hind standards, 82

Sleep disturbed by workmen purposely noisy at an early hour, 87

Sorbière’s description of London, 172

Springs of Carriages, how best constructed, 108

----, cording of, 126

Stable, the, 266

Stands, Hackney Coach, 188

State Coach of George III., 4

Steps of a Carriage, 210

Strangers behind a Carriage dangerous, 82

Straw-yard, 11

Street Act of the Metropolis, 86

Streets, care of Carriage in the public, 191

Street-keepers, 83

Stuffing of a Carriage preposterous, 69

Swift, Dean, quotation from, 164

Symmetry of the Horse, true, 219

Time, best, to bring out a new Carriage, 60

Tires of the wheels should be watched, 102

Tom Thrifty’s maxim, 153

Tools, a Coachman’s, 170

Trunk covers, 124

Turnpikes, 31

Valetudinarians, kind of springs for Carriages most beneficial to, 169

Value of well-matched Coach-horses, 23

Varnished panels, 207

Varnish, how to remedy cracks in the, 208

Visits, paying of, 171

Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the, 48

Under-springs, 217

Wager, Duke of Queensberry’s, 221

Wages, 25

Washing and cleaning the Carriage and harness, 203

Wax candles, 106

Wheels, of, 99

Wheels, tiring of, 17

Wicks, lamps with two flat, 107

Winch for the axle-trees, by whom best kept, 95

Yellow Chrome, the best colour for a Chariot, 73

Zinc, ointment for sore heels, 264

THE END.

J. MOYES, TOOK’S COURT, CHANCERY LANE.