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still few -well-trained hunters to be met with. The 

 horse, the most beautiful and useful of animals to man, 

 is seldom sufficiently instructed or familiarised, although 

 certainly capable of the greatest attachment to his 

 master when well used, and deserving to be treated 

 more as a friend than a slave. It is a general remark 

 how quiet some high-spirited horses will become when 

 ridden by ladies. The cause of this is, that they are 

 more quietly handled, patted, and caressed by them, 

 and become soon sensible of this difference of treatment, 

 from the rough whip-and-spur system, too generally 

 adopted by men." 



ON BAULKING OB JIBBING HOESES. 



Horses are taught the dangerous vice of baulking, or 

 jibbing, as it is called in England, by improper manage- 

 ment. \Yhen a horse jibs in harness, it is generally 

 from some mismanagement, excitement, confusion, or 

 from not knowing how to pull, but seldom from any 

 unwillingness to perform all that he understands. High- 

 spirited free-going horses are the most subject to baulk- 

 ing, and only so because drivers do not properly under- 

 stand how to manage this kind. A free horse in a team 

 may be so anxious to go, that when he hears the word 

 he will start with a jump, which will not move the load, 

 but give him such a severe jerk on the shoulders that he 

 will fly back and stop the other horse. The teamster 

 will continue his driving without any cessation, and by 

 the time he has the slow horse started again, he will find 

 that the free horse has made another jump, and again 

 flown back. And now he has them both badly baulked, 

 and so confused that neither of them knows what is the 



