318 HORSE AND MAN. 



matters knows how much more work is done by- 

 sailors who 'pull with a will,' than by those who 

 merely pull under compulsion, and in this respect 

 horses are very much like men. 



Not that horses should be over-indulged or 

 ' spoiled.' They are none the happier for it, but, 

 like spoiled dogs and children, are always wilful 

 and discontented. A ship's crew needs that the 

 captain shall be firm as well as kind, and that his 

 orders must be instantaneously obeyed. It is good 

 that mercy should temper justice, but unless justice 

 be paramount, mercy becomes a cruel weakness. 

 So the horse must never be allowed to feel for a 

 moment that he can have his own way in defiance 

 of his owner's will. With the horse as with man, 

 ' service is perfect freedom,' and both are the happier 

 when this principle is carried out. 



In fact, the horse wants to obey man, and if its 

 master will let the animal know his wishes, it will 

 obey him, even though he may not be present. From 

 among many examples of this fact, I select one or 

 two, premising that as some of the personages are 

 still living, the narrator among the number, I employ 

 initials. All the names, however, are given fully in 

 the original manuscript, and the writer is a gentleman 

 of widespread literary fame : — 



1 When I was a boy, I lived at R in Cornwall. 



