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ature is very cold. When a horse refuses his food in 

 travelling, the day's journey should cease, and it will 

 be well to mingle meal with his water, and give it 

 him slightly warm. This will often restore him to 

 his appetite, and enable him to resume his work the 

 next morning without difficulty. He should never 

 be urged to go more than twenty miles without a 

 bait. I generally stop for half an hour or forty 

 minutes every fifteen miles, and never found that I 

 lost time by doing so. I have picked up many a 

 useful hint in the management of a horse on the 

 road from commercial travellers ; some of them are 

 worth mentioning to those w^ho, like myself, cannot 

 always afford the luxury of a servant upon a long 

 journey. They may seem common-place to many 

 who are familiar with the subject, but I write ex- 

 pressly for readers of the opposite description, and 

 they will thank me for such details. 



Even the relief found by both horse and rider in 

 occasionally dismounting at long hills, whether in 

 ascending or descending them, seems forgotten by 

 gentlemen travellers. Yet, when the journey is long 

 to trot a tired horse up hill is cruelty, and sometimes 

 occasions him to throw a curb : to ride rapidly down 

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