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him of the matter, be the means of getting a man's 

 neck broke. I should also mention that you might 

 use any coloured pocket-handkerchief you pleased when 

 on him, but a white one he would not stand. I sold 

 him to a gentleman in Warwickshire who was in the 

 habit of patronisimg the white cambric ; but though 

 I told him the horse would not allow it, and my man 

 assured him " he wouldn't have it at no price," the 

 gentleman thought he would ; and thinking so was 

 the cause of his losing a day's hunting, his hat, and 

 nearly his head into the bargain. 



He sent the horse on to meet the hounds. After 

 mounting him for the first time, he had occasion to 

 use the cambric : away went the horse, and for the 

 six miles along the high road home he never got a 

 pull at him. Going under a brick arch across the road, 

 and being met unluckily by a carriage, the horse took 

 the foot-path: his master just saved his head by the 

 loss of his hat, and found himself at his house after 

 perhaps a better burst than he would have had with 

 the hounds. Mem. an agreeable airing this would 

 have been in harness ; yet I am quite satisfied, from 

 his good temper, he would have drawn quietly enough 

 until something alarmed him. " It is pace that kills" 

 the HOUSE ; but it is in most cases alarm that kills the 

 the master when horses are in harness, and sometimes 

 out of it. 



It is by no means an uncommon practice with per- 

 sons in the country who wish to break a horse to 

 harness (as I have often > heard them express them- 

 selves) " to put him into a strong cart, and then he 

 can't do any HARM : " perhaps he may not, but the 

 chance is, that, by this mode of commencing his har- 

 ness education, he will do no GOOD. This may be break- 



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