If his brake be a good one, he calculates he can stop his carriage, unless the horse be an extra powerful animal, in less than twice its own length.

Neither the German driver nor the German horse knows, apparently, that you can stop a carriage by any other method.

The German horse continues to pull with his full strength until he finds it impossible to move the vehicle another inch; then he rests.

Horses of other countries are quite willing to stop when the idea is suggested to them.

I have known horses content to go even quite slowly.