260 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



the mission of dentists in the world is, I believe, 

 to give people pain. 



Every driver should know when his horses are 

 properly harnessed and hitched to the vehicle. 

 And he should never fail to look over the whole 

 "turn out" in every detail to see that all is secure 

 and each part in proper adjustment to every 

 other part. The horse show authorities have for- 

 mulated rules as to what is proper for one vehicle 

 and another. The experts are veritable martinets 

 and attach as much importance to a strap here and 

 a buckle there as the unlucky King of Prussia, 

 who did battle with Napoleon, attached to one 

 row or two rows of buttons on a soldier's coat. 

 Intelligence, however, can find its way without 

 much regard to these fine points. But it is never 

 safe to trust to grooms and stablemen even 

 though they may really know more about it than 

 the driver himself. The driver is the master, and 

 he should make the inspection even though it be 

 only a formal one he should assume a virtue 

 though he has it not. Inspections of the work of 

 stablemen do not go amiss unless the unlucky 

 master should take to finding mares' nests. Two 



