BREAKING. 113 



This is a fad: but little known amidft the 

 multitude oi fuperjicial obfervers and metro- 

 poll tan fportftneriy but incontrovertible with 

 thofe who furvey this animal with the daily 

 eye of exquifite pleafure and admiration. 



The equa7iimity^ fortitude, and fobriety^ 

 fo indifpenfably necelTary for the fuccefsful 

 breaking and management of young, reftiff, 

 timid, or high-fpirited and refradlory horfes, 

 mull: be too fenfibly felt by every judicious 

 Reader, to require the leaft animadverfion 

 upon the advantage of fuch qualifications ; 

 I fliall therefore proceed to a few remarks 

 upon the almoft fyftematic condudl of grooms, 

 breakers, and fervants, (to whofe care horfes 

 of the firft eftimation are unavoidably entruft- 

 ed) who perfifting indifcriminately to effedl 

 all their purpofes by force, frequently err 

 much more from the very motive that Pope's 

 ruftic hero whiftled, ** wa7it of thought ^'^ 

 than any pre- determined fpirit of oppofition 

 to the rules of confillency and difcretion. 



It is no uncommon occurrence with con- 

 ftant travellers, to perceive one of this de- 

 fcription mounted upon a horfe denominated 



Vol. IL I reftiff, 



