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to travel four-score miles in a long day, is not to be often repeated with 

 impunity, by the best English roadsters, that is to say, the best upon 

 earth. I formerly knew a slender mapein Suffolk, about three-parts bred, 

 which, with seventeen stone upon her back, travelled four-score miles, 

 three or four successive days, and towards the conclusion of her jour- 

 ney, was so skittish, that she flew out of the road and threw her rider 

 into a ditch. It does not rain hacknies like her, yet her owner, some 

 few years afterwards, obtained another, nearly equal in goodness, well 

 known under the name of the Death's Dun Hobby. 



They who az'e accustomed to travel long continued journies, of weeks 

 or months together upon the same Horse, content themselves with per- 

 forming from twenty to thirty-five miles per day ; and with good keep, 

 namely, as much above a peck of corn daily, as tlie Horse's appetite 

 may fairly and naturally crave, and at proper weights, such moderate 

 labour may be maintained to any length, and good health and condi- 

 tion preserved, provided the traveller set out with a sound hacknev 

 adapted to the road. The prime requisites of such adaptation are, go- 

 ing perfectly clear all-fours, in plain English, never knocking or cutting 

 a hair, before or behind ; sufficiently bending the knee, and keeping well 

 above the ground ; descending a hill safelv, with a natural and instinc- 

 tive resting on the haunches, and always bearing lightly and i)lcasantly 

 on the bit. There is a very agreeable reining and gentle play of the 

 head and neck, with good-tempered and Avell-mouthed Horses, in their 

 travelling, but the habit of rude and constant motion of the head, 

 which is often thrown up, to the eminent danger of striking the rider's 

 face, embarrassing enough at all times, is, in hot weather, intolerable, 

 connected with any degree of comfort. A running martingale is the 

 only remedy. In noting the qualifications of a good hack, such a shoulder 

 and fore-hand as Avill prove a stay to the saddle, and render a crooper 

 utterly needless, ought not to be forgotten ; not only in regard to the 

 awkwardness and want of style in the crooper, but because the need uf 

 0!:eever indicates a deliictive Ibrm inthe Horse. Nevertheless, salety and 

 comfort ever ouglit to take precedence of fashion, and it is far better to 

 ridewitha crooper, than for a man to exhibit himself in the dangerous 



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