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, Tom 2Henry Colburn, 1827 |
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Strona vii
... 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 Hints to Horsemen On the Rough Shodding of Horses in Frosty ..... 272 273 Weather 281 ...
... 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 Hints to Horsemen On the Rough Shodding of Horses in Frosty ..... 272 273 Weather 281 ...
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... Coat , and a Groom's Great Coat , and the difference of Rent and Taxes on a Single Stall Stable , ( which it is often excessively difficult to ob- tain contiguous to your House ) , and on Two Stalls and a Coach - house , is , according ...
... Coat , and a Groom's Great Coat , and the difference of Rent and Taxes on a Single Stall Stable , ( which it is often excessively difficult to ob- tain contiguous to your House ) , and on Two Stalls and a Coach - house , is , according ...
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... Coats . The ordinary Town Carriage Work can be done just as well by a Pair of Horses , which may be had for £ 70 . or £ 80 . as with those that cost three times that Sum ; indeed it will most likely be done better . If you have Horses ...
... Coats . The ordinary Town Carriage Work can be done just as well by a Pair of Horses , which may be had for £ 70 . or £ 80 . as with those that cost three times that Sum ; indeed it will most likely be done better . If you have Horses ...
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... Coat of one Colour , and lined with another , a Waistcoat of another , and the other Clothes of another Colour , claims the Poet's censure it is " Gaudy " . unless for a full - Dress Livery on a Gala Day : - we equally disapprove of the ...
... Coat of one Colour , and lined with another , a Waistcoat of another , and the other Clothes of another Colour , claims the Poet's censure it is " Gaudy " . unless for a full - Dress Livery on a Gala Day : - we equally disapprove of the ...
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... Coat , Waistcoat , and Overalls ( Drab Fustian , lined , ) & c . £ . s . d . 255 2 6 0 13 6 3 13 O 259 For those who make but little use of their Carriage , ONE LIVERY a Year , or Two in Three Years , is enough , especially if you give ...
... Coat , Waistcoat , and Overalls ( Drab Fustian , lined , ) & c . £ . s . d . 255 2 6 0 13 6 3 13 O 259 For those who make but little use of their Carriage , ONE LIVERY a Year , or Two in Three Years , is enough , especially if you give ...
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