EXERCISE. 203 



instinctive stupidity of manj^ can never (fronl 

 their inexplicable want of comprehension) 

 be brought to understand. Such inconsider- 

 ate observers might certainly improve their 

 very shalloxv judgment^ by some trifling atten- 

 tion to the indications of nature in horses 

 of any tolerable description, who all display, 

 in different attitudes and by various means, 

 the gratification they enjoy in their distinct 

 appropriations. In fact, the animated aspect 

 of the whole frame, the lively eye, the crested 

 neck, the tail erect, with the most spirited 

 bodily action of neighing, snorting, and cur- 

 vetting, all tend to prove the constitutional 

 utility of exercise in length and manner 

 adapted to the size, strength, make, condi- 

 tion, and purpose of the horse. 



Perfectly convinced of its indispensable 

 necessity to horses of all kinds, in proportion 

 to the uses for which they are designed, and 

 the portion of aliment they receive, I am not 

 unfrequently very highly entertained with 

 the management of many within the exten- 

 sive circle of my own acquaintance, (and those 

 too with inherent pride sufficient to assume 



