DEVELOP SPEED IN HORSES. 55 



In driving, the whip is an important auxiliary, and you 

 should never get in behind a horse without one, but an 

 indiscriminate use of the whip will produce unsatisfactory 

 results with horses, as well as with the growing generation 

 of men. Never use it unless it is necessary, then let the 

 horse know that it is no plaything. In driving horses, 

 insist upon an even rate of speed when you start them 

 up, and don't pull at the bit, only steady the horse, he 

 will as he improves in strength and gait, take hold of 

 the bit hard enough to suit you. Horses learn to go 

 themselves if they are not interfered with and have the 

 capacity to go. A horse in a horseman's hands may in a 

 short time learn to go a clip that will carry a man ten or 

 twelve miles an hour, without any persuasion, and do it 

 cheerfully, and passing into another man's hands, get in a 

 short time so that he will have to be clubbed to get him 

 ten miles in an hour, or else he will graduate into a 

 chronic puller ; now this is all in the treatment and driv- 

 ing. I have seen some ladies who were exceptionally 

 good drivers of road horses and exhibited a judgment 

 and discretion found in but few of the sterner sex. For 

 horses that shy, and are afraid of objects they are unac- 

 quainted with, of course you must be on the lookout for. 

 But the fear in the horse is oftener intensified by the 

 timid driver, than a catastrophe is averted by such a 

 driver's exertions. Watch your horse but don't commu- 

 nicate to him through the medium of the reins and bit, 

 that you anticipate any unruly exhibition from him. 

 There is a magnetism existing which I cannot account 

 for, that is communicated from the driver to the horse and 

 from the horse to the man through the medium, of the 

 reins and bit. Any man having had much experience in 

 riding and driving horses, can attest to this statement. 

 You may go out to drive, not feeling first rate, on a fine 

 morning ; if the horse possesses a superabundance of ani- 

 mal spirits, you will shortly begin to feel better and ex- 

 hilerated by the association. Some may say it is only the 

 air and exercise, and constant and rapid change of scenery, 

 but I know better, you get into a street car, and ride, 



