CHAPTEE I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



It is very remarkable that in this country so large a 

 proportion of very badly arranged teams and horses 

 in single draught should be found working on the 

 same roads with others, and we think the majority, 

 whose whole trim is unexceptionable, and in very 

 many cases perfectly artistic. If the horses and 

 vehicles of the rich all belonged to the latter class 

 and those of the poor to the former, we should feel 

 disposed to lay down the pen at once in despair ; 

 but this is by no means the case, the proofs being 

 patent enough that sore shoulders and galled withers 

 are occasioned much more frequently by want of 

 detail knowledge, and attention to simple mechanical 

 principles, than to a deficiency of means. On the 

 continent of Europe, generally speaking, there is much 

 less difference observable in this matter. One seldom 

 sees a very good arrangement of draught and harness, 

 and equally seldom a totally absurd one ; perhaps the 

 question of expense has a greater influence in most 

 countries than in our own, and people are therefore 

 driven to make the most of the simple means at their 

 disposal, and eitr ingenuity supply the lack of hard 



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