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looking for the female than in obeying their 

 riders. Maiden stalHons are quite different in 

 their tempers to those that have once had mares; 

 they are gentle and tractable, and may be used 

 together in harness as quietly as geldings; but 

 immediatjely after they have been used to cover, 

 they become more savage to each other, and 

 very restless if kept in high condition. No 

 Irrational animal on the face of the earth ex- 

 hibits so beautiful and grand an appearance as 

 a well-formed, middle-sized, blood stallion, 

 compact and complete In all his members, and 

 left as the hand of nature finished him. Every 

 touch of art tends to spoil the perfection of 

 his figure, with the exception of shoeing, 

 which is only to preserve what nature formed 

 so well ; and if such a horse be well broken, 

 and mounted by a good rider, the toute en- 

 semble exhibits the finest production that 

 nature has shewn in her variety of animate 

 beings. In the dragoon service, however, 

 nature must, In this, as well as in Qther re- 

 spects, yield to art. 



