BREAKING. 113 



This is- a fact but little known amidst tlie 

 tnultitiide oi superficial observers, and metro-- 

 pohtan sportsmen, but incontrovertible with 

 those who survey this animal with the daily 

 eye of exquisite pleasure and admiration. 



The equanimity , fortitude, and sobriety, so' 

 indispensably necessary for the successful 

 breaking and management of young, restive, 

 timid, or high-spirited, and refractory horses, 

 must be too sensibb/ felt by every judicious 

 reader, to require the least animadversion 

 tipon the advantage of such qualifications ; I 

 shall therefore proceed to a few remarks upon 

 the almost systematic conduct oi grooms, 

 breakers, and servants, (to whose care horses 

 of the first estimation are unavoidably in- 

 trusted) who, persisting indiscriminately to 

 effect all their purposes by force, frequently 

 err much more from the very motive that 

 Pope's rustic hero whistled,'' zt' ant of thought,'^ 

 than any pre-determined spirit of opposition 

 to the rules of consistency and discretion. 



It is no uncommon occurrence vv^ith con- 

 stant travellers, to perceive one of this de- 

 scription mounted upon a horse d^^Mionjinated 



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