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IS'ever lose coTirage, or confidence in joiir ability 

 because 3^ou may not bring about good results easily. 

 To accomplisli anything of importance, remember, 

 requires no ordinar}^ resolution and perseverance. 

 There would be no credit or importance attached to 

 mastering and managing bad horses, if not difficult, 

 and apparently dangerous. No duty requires more 

 firmness of purpose in the control of the passions, or 

 more fidelity to the principles of firmness and truth, 

 than that of horsemanship. 



If you would really be a successful horseman, you 

 must never seem to forget, by your conduct, that you 

 are a man, and that your real superiority over the 

 animal consists in the prudent exercise of your rea- 

 soning powers. Brute force is not your forte, and 

 the instant that you give way to passion, your reason 

 must yield to the control of blind instinct, and you 

 at once abdicate your intellectual superiority over 

 the animal. Try to prove, by the example of your 

 action in the performance of the duty, that to be a 

 good horseman requires higher qualifications of 

 fitness than that of the huckstering dishonesty and 

 depravity, so generally evinced in the conduct of 

 those claiming the distinction. 



Ho^v to tell a Morse's Ag^e. 



At two years old, colt sheds two centre nippers. 

 At three years old, colt sheds the adjoining teeth. 

 At four years old, colt sheds outer or corner teetL 



