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him familiar. Horses are by nature more active 

 than cows, and more disposed to gallop about. This 

 only arises from galloping being less trouble to them 

 than to the less active animal : but the antipathy to 

 or the fear of man exists no stronger in the one 

 animal than in the other when in a wild state. 

 The highest bred, the hardest pulling, and most 

 determined filly that ever bolted with a jockey when 

 in a state of irritability and excitement the very 

 frequent result of severe training and racing can 

 be made, if properly treated when permitted to lead 

 a life of quiet and repose, as a brood mare, as familiar 

 and as docile as the veriest cow in existence, and the 

 colt as tame as any calf that ever lived the pet of 

 a cottage family. Such, I maintain, is the state to 

 which all mares and colts should be brought, and 

 most particularly valuable ones. 



If the mode I advocate as the best in rearing 

 horses was attended with great extra expense or 

 trouble, some objections on that score might be made ; 

 but it is not ; for the utmost it could cost is a very 

 small additional portion of the time of the man in 

 charge of the stock : and even this in most cases would 

 be no loss to the employer ; for if the man did not 

 spend this little additional time in the paddocks with 

 the mares and foals, he would most likely spend it in 

 the public-house with much worse company, or in 

 idleness, which is nearly as bad. 



I have seen a man giving mares their oats in their 

 paddock-sheds : when I say man, I should say men, 

 for I have seen many of the same sort I trust I need 

 scarcely say, they did not live with me: these men, 

 on opening the paddock, walk towards the hovel with 

 their sieve : the mares, seeing the latter, come up to 



