BKEAKING. Ill 



earnestly recommending this lenity in the 

 practice, has arisen from innumerable in- 

 stances within my own knowledge of horses 

 rendered invincibly restive by the dint of per- 

 petual ill usage and unjust opposition ; when^ 

 from the natural bent of their dispositions, a 

 different mode of treatment would have pro- 

 duced a direct contrary effect. 



To this part of the subject I have ever 

 paid the greatest personal attention, and de- 

 clare, with the strictest adherence to truth, I 

 never yet saw a restive liorse made better by 

 violence and abuse. If any vociferous dis- 

 putant, fond of displaying his courage and 

 exerting his poAver, feel his innate cruelty in 

 some degree abridged by the intervention of 

 humanity, and arrogantly ask, *' Whether he 

 is to abandon his purpose, and permit the 

 horse to gain the victory and become his mas- 

 ter ?" I answer him with the greatest serenity, 

 *^ On no account whatever/' Such is not 

 the purport of my recommendation ; our 

 intents are undoubtedly the same, but to be 

 eventually accomplished by very different 

 means : I repeatedly urge the propriety of 

 due attention to the various tempers and dis- 



