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The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers : Part II : Comprising the Horse and Carriage Keeper's Oracle : Rules for Purchasing and Keeping Or Jobbing Horses and Carriages; Estimates of Expenses Occasioned Thereby; and an Easy Plan for Ascertaining Every Hackney-coach Fare, Volume 2

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William Kitchiner

Henry Colburn, 1827

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Contents

INTRODUCTION	3

Estimate of Keeping a Groom and one Horse	11

Expense of Keeping a Coachman a Carriage	19

Liberal Plan of Keeping a Carriage	33

Estimate of Hiring a Carriage for any short	39

Estimate and Description of a Handsome Town	40

Carriages and Coachmaking	50

Of the Construction of a Chariot	65

Of Driving	184

Of Care of the Carriage	201

Of Repairing Carriages	213

Hints to Purchasers of Horses	223

To Preserve the Health of Horses	238

To Make a Horse have a Fine Coat	246

On sending Horses to Grass	257

Of Stables	266

Of AxleTrees	93

Of the Wheels	99

Cautions against Purchasing of Cheap Second	112

riot	127

The Art of Managing Coachmen	133

Of Punctuality	151

Of Lending your Carriage	160

Coachmans Tools	170

Management of Horses in case of Fire	272

On the Rough Shodding of Horses in Frosty	281

Of the Comparative Expense of a Private	286

An Easy Plan of Ascertaining every Fare of	292

When and How to Call a Coach	312

Hackney Coach and Chariot Fares	318

MUSIC TO PART II	329

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The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing ..., Volume 2
William Kitchiner
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The Traveller's Oracle; or maxims for locomotion, Volume 2
William Kitchiner
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Title	The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers : Part II : Comprising the Horse and Carriage Keeper's Oracle : Rules for Purchasing and Keeping Or Jobbing Horses and Carriages ..., Volume 2 The Traveller's Oracle, Or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers : Part II : Comprising the Horse and Carriage Keeper's Oracle : Rules for Purchasing and Keeping Or Jobbing Horses and Carriages; Estimates of Expenses Occasioned Thereby; and an Easy Plan for Ascertaining Every Hackney-coach Fare, William Kitchiner Volume 2 of The Traveller's Oracle; Or Maxims for Locomotion, William Kitchiner
Author	William Kitchiner
Editor	William Kitchiner
Publisher	Henry Colburn, 1827
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	12 Aug 2019

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