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delctcrions — affectini^' the si^lit — and Lave hailed, with gratified feelings, 

 the slight movement that lias been made in this country to dispose of 

 them. Mr. Karey says : 



" I take great pleasure in stating that all my experience with and ob- 

 servation of horses proves clearly to me that blinkers should not be 

 used, and that the sight of the horse, for many reasons, should not be 

 interfered with in any way. Horses are only fearful of objects wliicli 

 they do not understand, or are not familiar with, and the eye is one of 

 the principal mediums by v>'hich this understanding and this familiarity 

 are brought about. 



"The horse, on account of his very amiable nature, can be made, in 

 the course of time, to bear almost any thing in any shape ; but there is 

 a quicker process of reaching his inteUigence than that of wearing it 

 into him through his skin and bones ; and he, however wild or nervous, 

 can be taught in a very short time to understand and not to fear any 

 object, however frightful in appearance. Horses can be broken in less 

 time and better without blinkers; but horses that have always worn 

 them will notice the sudden change, and must be treated carefully the 

 first drive. After that, they will drive better without the blinkers than 

 with them. 



" I have proved, by my own experiments, that a horse broken with- 

 out blinkers can be driven past any omnibus, cab, or carriage, on a 

 parallel line as close as it is possible for him to go, without ever waver- 

 ing or showing any disposition to dodge. I have not in the last eight 

 or ten years, constantly handling horses both wild and nervous, ever put 

 blinkers on any of them, and in no case have I ever had one that was 

 afraid of the carriage he drew behind him or of those he passed in the 

 streets. 



"The horse's eye is the life and beauty of the animal, as well as the 

 index of all his emotions. It tells the driver, in the most in'pressive 

 characters, what the horse's feelings are. By it he can tell the first ap- 

 proach of fear in time to meet any difliculty ; he can tell if he is happy 

 or sad, hungry or weary. The horse, too, when permitted to see, uses 

 his eyes with great judgment. He sees better than we do. He can 

 measure distances with his eyes better than we can, and, if allowed free 

 use of them, would often save himself, by the quickness of his sight, 

 from collisions, when the driver would fail to do so by a timely pull of 

 the reins. It would also save many accidents to pedestriar.s in the 

 streets, as no horse will run on to any person that he can see. ^ '^ * 

 I have yet to find the man who, haviug once left them off", could ever be 

 persuaded to put them on again. They are an unnecessary and in- 

 jurious incumbrance to the horse, and I feel confident, it' the cabmen 

 of London will leave them off for one year, that blinkers on cab-horses 

 will never be seen again in the streets, and will only be a thing to be 

 read of as one of the follies happily reformed in the nineteenth cen- 

 tury." 



to Drive a Kicking Horse. — Bend up the near fore-foot (see fig. 1, first 

 position), then draw a loop over the knee and up to the pastern joint, 

 and secure it there. The horse cannot kick while standing on three 

 legs, and there is this further advaritago, handiing in this plight con- 



