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Updated: May 18, 2025
"I've done my duty mostly, and not complained of the hardships, though once or twice I've been too beat out to get off the box at the end of my drive; but that was in a long spell of bad weather, when the roads was just awful, and the rain as cold as snow." "Would you mind letting me hold the lines awhile?" asked the cooing voice, at last. "I've driven a six-in-hand before."
He drives six-in-hand over ruts and streams and never upsets.... With wonderful art he grinds into paint for his picture all his moods and experiences, and crashes his way through shoals of dilettante opinions. It is not in man to determine what his style shall be, if it is to be his own. But though a rugged, Carlyle was the reverse of a careless or ready writer.
So some of us galloped them thither, six-in-hand, amid the whine of shrapnel and the whistle of shot.
While pa was in the hospital at Kansas City he formed a plan to paralyze the town by driving six zebras to a tally-ho coach, in the parade, and the reporters interviewed pa, and the papers were full of it, and the people were wild with excitement, and everybody wanted to see a six-in-hand zebra team, driven by Alkali Ike, one of the greatest western stage drivers that was ever held up by road agents.
But these personal distinctions identified in an instant an old friend of mine, whom I had known in the south for some years as the most masterly of mail-coachmen. He was the man in all Europe that could best have undertaken to drive six-in-hand full gallop over Al Sirat that famous bridge of Mahomet across the bottomless gulf, backing himself against the Prophet and twenty such fellows.
The war was not, however, carried on in a very royal sort; for, as the travelling mountebank drives six-in-hand through a country town to entice the gaping provincials to his booth, so these water-jugglers went round the streets of London, throwing up rival jets-d'eau from their mains, to prove the alleged superiority of their engines, and to captivate the fancy of hesitating customers.
I tell him as long as his conscience is clear, he is all right, but he says: "But, Hennery, that's the trouble; it ain't clear. Well, let us have peace, at any price." Pa Breaks in the Zebras and Drives a Six-in-Hand Team in the Parade The Freaks Have a Narrow Escape from Drowning. Pa is stuck on the zebras.
Now, I'll drive six-in-hand as soon as any man drove a ten-hander last year in the Bois when the team comes out of the stables; but I'm hanged if I'd risk my neck with managing even a pair of women. Have one clean out of the shafts before you trot out another!"
"I cannot," was the quick response of the doctor. "Then I will," said the young miner. "You?" "Yes, landlord." "Do you know how to drive?" "I have driven six-in-hand often." "When?" "I drove wagons and ambulances in the army, and on one occasion drove the general with four-in-hand over four hundred miles of the worst country I ever saw."
As Leloo came slowly upon them, the big driver called, "Who's there ahead in the trail? Who's shooting around here?" "Go back, you!" cried the boy. "Two bad men's up trail. They shoot you. They get gold." "Gee whiz!" yelled Big Bill, bringing his six-in-hand to a standstill. "Holdup, eh? I declare, but that's a narrow escape. I guess Big Bill won't cross the divide to-night."
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