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but because there were two or three hills that could 

 only be done at a jog trot, and required regular 

 cart-horse pulling and strength to get up. I do not 

 mean to say Sir Hercules could in a walk carry as 

 much flour as a miller's horse ; but he would beat him 

 into fits, and bring him to a stand-still, with 1 7st. on 

 each of their backs in a gallop : and when a man 

 weighs more, let me remind him that railroads go 

 very fast, and that particular trains will carry him 

 very cheap: if he weighs more, there are luggage- 

 trains. 



But, suppose our friend not reduced to this ex- 

 tremity, and to be merely forgive me, spirits of 

 departed horses, for saying merely 16st. : never let 

 such a man be persuaded into buying a slow horse 

 because he looks or is a strong one : he will be told he 

 is "a sticker ;" he will find him so; he will stick in 

 the middle of a field with him, and he will find his 

 nag's adhesive qualities very difficult to remove. 

 Speed, so far as it can be got, with sufficient strength, 

 is the first thing a heavy man should look for, and for 

 a very simple reason : it is quite enough for a horse to 

 be distressed by weight, but if he is a slow one he 

 will be distressed by pace also. It is for this reason 

 horses apparently overweighted get along; for in- 

 dependently of many of those (like men) being much 

 stronger than they look, they not being, like the slow 

 one, going at their best, they are not beat by pace : 

 the slow one would be if turned loose. I am quite 

 satisfied in rny own mind that horses that pull hard 

 carry weight better than those which do not. In the 

 first place, such horses of course have not tender 

 delicate mouths ; so they can be assisted without 

 putting them to pain. A very light-mouthed horse is 



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