Give the boy a whip, Jack.

I never carries one when I drive old----" He didn't finish the sentence.

Jack handed Diamond a whip, with which, by holding it half down the stick, he managed just to flack the haunches of the horse; and away he went.
"Mind the gate," said Mr.Stonecrop; and Diamond did mind the gate, and guided the nameless horse through it in safety, pulling him this way and that according as was necessary.

Diamond learned to drive all the sooner that he had been accustomed to do what he was told, and could obey the smallest hint in a moment.

Nothing helps one to get on like that.