THE AMERICAN HORSE. 87 



go to select a speaker for himself. He is a good judge of 

 men, and, I assure you, he is just as good a judge of horses ; 

 so that he and I stand exactly on the same platform on those 

 two points. 



Now, I am going to make, to a certain extent, Mr. Lyford's 

 speech. He and I are Americans, and we believe in a good, 

 old-fashioned, square-gaited, straight-driving, marching Amer- 

 ican horse that will take the road and go on about his busi- 

 ness, and know as well what he has to do as his driver does ; 

 which will begin in the morning bravely, and end bravely at 

 night ; that wonderful structure which we have here in New 

 England, the outgrowth, not of one breed of horses or 

 another, but the result of the peculiar institutions of this 

 country, which require that a horse should discharge his duty 

 here foithfully and well, not waste it by cantering for a morn- 

 ing's drive, not scampering over a field like a greyhound, or 

 like a coward running away from danger, but holding himself 

 firm and level in every crisis, doing his duty well at the 

 plough and well on the road. That horse has grown out of 

 this uniform social level here, which renders it necessary that 

 the man who is going to meeting to hear Mr. Murray preach 

 should get there as quickly as possible, and, after Mr. Murray 

 has got through, should get home and look after his domestic 

 affairs as quickly as possible ; a horse that can carry you 

 about and maintain his equilibrium and his force, and dis- 

 charge his duty well, not for one man or another, not for the 

 jockey on the track, alone, but for the business-man in his busi- 

 ness, for the doctor on the road visiting his patients, for the 

 farmer, when he is desirous of doing good work in his field, 

 for the man who goes out for an afternoon drive, and for the 

 gentleman who does not want to be passed on the road. 



This is the American horse, — the best horse in the world ; 

 there is no doubt about it at all. Not, as I say, the product 

 of any one given breed, but the natural product of generations 

 of intellio^ent drivins;, and driving done with that wonderful 

 skill which the American driver has, and which has not been 

 equalled by any other nationality on the earth ; by that assump- 

 tion of our drivers here, that in order to make a horse work 

 well, you must become a part of that horse, and he a part of 

 you ; that between his bit and your hand there must be a cer- 



