HUNTER DRAUGHT HORSE. 63 



A baronet, one of whose hunters had never tired 

 in the longest chace, once encouraged the cruel 

 thought of attempting, completely, to fatigue him. 

 After a long chace, therefore, he dined, and again 

 mounting, rode him furiously among the hills. When 

 brought to the stable, his strength appeared exhaust- 

 ed, and he was scarcely able to walk. The groom, 

 possessed of more feeling than his brutal master, could 

 not refrain from tears at the sight of so noble an 

 animal thus sunk down. The baronet, sometime after, 

 entered the stable, and the horse made a furious 

 spring upon him, and, had not the groom interfered, 

 would soon have put it out of his power ever again to 

 misuse his animals. 



Hunters are sent over from England to almost 

 every part ef the continent, particularly to Russia 

 and Germany. They are sold there for very high 

 prices, as their superiority over all other horses is 

 universally known and acknowledged. 



While the beauty, the elegance, the activity, and 

 strength, of the race-horse and the hunter, combined 

 with the most wonderful tractableness of disposition, 

 willingness of exertion, and submissive obedience, 

 are exceilencies which give to these noble quadrupeds 

 a decided pre-eminence in the animal creation, it must 

 be a subject of regret to the feeling mind, that those 

 valuable qualities should be so frequently abused, 

 and such extraordinary power exhausted in the most 

 useless exertions. 



THE BLACK DRAUGHT HORSE. 



This breed of horses surpasses in strength all others 

 that any country has produced. The largest of this 

 sort are found in the fens of Lincolnshire. Instances 

 have been known, of a single horse of this breed 

 drawing, for a short distance, the weight of three 

 tons. A great part of the British cavalry are mount- 

 ed on horses of this kind : in some regiments, those 

 of a lighter make are used. The old black coach- 

 horse is now almost universally set aside j instead 

 of which a more active and lighter kind is used 

 in our carriages. It is pleasing to observe, that the 



