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cause he lias found out that he can 

 take liberties with his rider. A man of 

 discretion will know when a horse should 

 be w^hipped up to an object of w^hich 

 there is a pretence of fear, but the 

 horse must never be struck after he has 

 passed on. 



I do not like a horse that has low 

 action, for he must trip, and he is likely, 

 sooner or later, to come down. A horse 

 stumbles when, throuc^h weakness, w^eari- 

 ness, or stiffness from age and work, he 

 is not able to recover himself from a trip. 

 He usuallv bears the evidence of his 

 accident on his knees. 



A horse that stumbles from weakness 

 is not fit for saddle use. If the rider 

 is unfortunate enough to find himself 

 mounted uj^on a horse that gives indica- 



