AN EASY PLAN
FOR
ASCERTAINING EVERY HACKNEY-COACH FARE.
CONTENTS OF PART II.
| Introduction | [3] |
| Estimate of Keeping a Groom and one Horse in your own Stable | [11] |
| Estimate of the Expense of Keeping one Horse at a Livery Stable | [15] |
| Estimates of various Carriages | [16] |
| Expense of Keeping a Coachman, a Carriage, and two Horses in your own Coach-House and Stable | [19] |
| Liberal Plan of Keeping a Carriage | [33] |
| Estimate of Hiring a Carriage for any short Period | [39] |
| Estimate of Jobbing Horses | [44] |
| Estimate and Description of a Handsome Town Chariot | [50] |
| Carriages and Coachmaking | [59] |
| Of the Construction of a Chariot | [65] |
| Of Axle-Trees | [93] |
| Of the Wheels | [99] |
| The Ornaments of Carriages | [104] |
| Cautions against Purchasing of Cheap Second-hand Carriages | [112] |
| Of the Harness | [119] |
| Of Second-hand Harness | [121] |
| Travelling Carriages | [123] |
| Description of Buonaparte’s Travelling Chariot | [127] |
| Duties on Male Servants, Carriages, and Horses | [131] |
| The Art of Managing Coachmen | [133] |
| Of Evening Parties | [136] |
| Of Coachmen and Orders | [142-150] |
| Of Punctuality | [151] |
| Of Lending your Carriage | [160] |
| The Fifteen Things which a good Coachman Won’t Do | [165] |
| Coachman’s Tools | [170] |
| Of the New Road and Regent’s Park | [173] |
| Of Driving | [184] |
| Of Care of the Carriage | [201] |
| Of Repairing Carriages | [212] |
| On Horses | [218] |
| Hints to Purchasers of Horses | [223] |
| To Preserve the Health of Horses | [238] |
| To Make a Horse have a Fine Coat | [246] |
| On the Food of Horses | [249] |
| On sending Horses to Grass | [257] |
| Colds of Horses | [261] |
| Of Stables | [266] |
| Management of Horses in case of Fire | [272] |
| Hints to Horsemen | [273] |
| On the Rough Shodding of Horses in Frosty Weather | [281] |
| Of the Comparative Expense of a Private Carriage and of Hiring of Hackney Coaches | [286] |
| An Easy Plan of Ascertaining every Fare of a Hackney Coach | [292] |
| When and How to Call a Coach | [312] |
| Hackney Coach and Chariot Fares | [318] |
| Specimen of Cary’s New Guide for Ascertaining Hackney Coach Fares | [324] |
| MUSIC TO PART II. | |
| Trio | to face page [90] |
THE TRAVELLER’S ORACLE, PART II.
THE
HORSE AND CARRIAGE KEEPER’S
ORACLE.
INTRODUCTION.
The following Estimates of the Expense of keeping Horses and Carriages, are Accurate Statements, they cannot be well kept for less, and they need not cost more:—the Reader will have no difficulty in finding a Hackneyman, and a Coachmaker, who will furnish him with them on the terms herein set down; for we have adopted a mean between thoughtless Extravagance on the one hand, and rigid Parsimony on the other.