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Intelligent Driviag- Horses. 



Question. How would you tell the dispositions of different horses? 



A?iswc?\ Horses vary in disprsition the same as people. Some 

 have nervous, excitable dispositions, while others are treacherous 

 and sullen. Tf the horse has loug ears, long hair on the inside, nar- 

 row between the ears, narrow between the eyes, with a small, round 

 eye, sunken in the back of the head, and a small, thick nostril, you 

 have a horse of no intelligence and of a very sluggish disposition. 

 If you have a horse with small ears, furry inside, broad between the 

 ears, broad between the eyes, with a large, full, hazel eye, and a 

 large, thin nostril, he is a quick, nervous, intelligent animal, ready 

 to obey any command that you give him; but you must not whip or 

 spur him. Now, if you ever find a horse that drops in on the top 

 of his head and full between his eyes and a kind of a Eoman neck on 

 him, and the face between the eyes dished out, these are generally 

 horses that have some vicious or bad vice, and have a treacherous 

 and vicious disposition. 



Question. What colored horses are of the best disposition? 



Anszver. During my professional career of over fifteen years, and 

 having handled in the neighborhood over 15,000 horses, I have 



