130 THE HORSE AND HIS STABLE. [CHAP, xi. 



to start again. In the case of the wild horse of the 

 Pampas, he is urged for two, three, or perhaps five hours, 

 to the utmost distress for wind, as well as muscular 

 fatigue. He is enlarged, and in a day or two he is 

 precisely the same as if he had never been ridden. But 

 in the case of the English road-rider, though no spur is 

 used, unfair advantage is taken of the horse's impetuous 

 freedom of nature, his sinews are strained, his joints 

 permanently stiffened, he is deprived at once and for 

 ever of his elasticity and action, and brought prematurely 

 a cripple to the grave. 



BRADBURT AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRTARS. 



