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be drawn, we must have ponderous weight as well as 

 strength to draw it; but most unquestionably two 

 nearly thorough-bred galloways would beat the one 

 elephantine animal hollow, would cost no more to buy, 

 and very little more to keep, independent of going faster, 

 and making the carriage follow so much more smoothly 

 to those riding in or on it ; for where one horse is 

 only employed in drawing a heavy carriage, it is ex- 

 emplifying the old saying, " no longer pipe no longer 

 dance : " the moment the immense animal ceases to 

 tug at the immense carriage, it partially stops ; and 

 when he steps up to his collar, he gives us the 

 same pleasing shock we experience when a railway 

 carriage behind gives the one we are riding in one of 

 its forcible hints to move on. With two horses this 

 is not the case, for one or the other keeps it going. 

 Now in a gig, I could tell with my eyes shut, if I was 

 riding in it, whether it was drawn by one horse or 

 two tandem. In the latter case a jerk is seldom felt ; 

 in a gig it occurs constantly. What is it makes 

 drawing boats or barges so truly distressing to horses 

 but the everlasting weight on their shoulders from 

 there being of course no declivities to relieve them? 

 So it is in a mitigated sense with the one horse in 

 heavy draught : he is always (or comparatively so) 

 at work. When he ceases to be this for the shortest 

 period, the great effort he is forced to make to carry 

 011 the carriage again gives the shock I have described, 

 and clearly proves the greatness of the effort. Now 

 this shock bringing sometimes noses close to each 

 other may be pretty fun enough if a gentleman is 

 sitting on one side and a very lovely pair of lips on 

 the other, if he is good marksman enough to catch 

 them ; but as in the absence of the " cherry ripes " 



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