The four-in-hand, as can be gathered from the above description, did not in any way in his eyes represent possible pageantry.

He drove it because he liked it.

He was always preaching caution to his boys, but in this respect he did not practice his preaching overmuch himself; and, being an excellent whip, he liked to take chances.

Generally they came out all right.

Occasionally they did not; but he was even better at getting out of a scrape than into it.