isfaction that seems possible is the display 

 of a fine-looking and well-groomed team — 

 a mere matter of pure ostentation. 



The horse must be constantly coddled, 

 in the stable and out of the stable. He 

 cannot stop any considerable time without 

 being wrapped up in a warm blanket, and 

 is always the subject of much care and 

 solicitude. 



Such a state of things was unknown fifty 

 years ago. Horses were then subordinate 

 to man, not man to the horse. A man 

 then took no pride in his horse, unless he 

 could do something. He recognized the 

 fact, that a horse was a locomotive ani- 

 mal, and did not rate him high unless he 

 could go and endure. Mere beauty of 

 form and sleekness of coat, however desir- 



