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THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



the fact that we have lost that best of all useful gaits, the rapid 

 walk. The saddle-horse has a better disposition than the mod- 

 ern buggy and road horse. He was always in sympathy with 

 his rider and the rider with him, and they readily accommoda- 

 ted each to the other. The change of gait rested each, and they 

 combined to learn them. The walk, fox trot, rack, or single 

 foot, the pace or amble, the gallop, all came in play to rest each 

 and make the journey a pleasure to both. The modern jog or 



TOM WONDER. 

 GENERAL, PURPOSE HORSE. Sire, Tom Crowder ; Dam by Woodpecker. 



spurt with a buggy soon becomes destitute of any thing that 

 enlivens rider or horse. The rider becomes dull and the horse 

 duller, and the work done by each is the merest drudgery. It 

 develops neither horsemanship, nor speed, nor style. It suits a 

 slow-going, lazy man, an idler, or a lout, that has not life or 

 spirit enough to enjoy the gait or style of a spirited saddle- 

 horse. Let us hope that the farmers may return to the better 

 days, when the handy saddle-horse served us better and at far 



