VARIATION. 357 



dent, are the frequent results to many horses from the 

 unvarying discipline of long-continued exercise, with- 

 out variation in the way it is daily given. 



In training men for fighting, or, indeed, any ath- 

 letic feat, one great effort on the part of a judicious 

 trainer is to keep the mind of his man amused, that 

 he may not get dissatisfied or disgusted with his work. 

 He is not kept to walking or running a given distance, 

 at a given pace, over the same ground ; the scene and 

 the labour are changed for him : he is made to take 

 strong exercise, it is true ; but it is varied : he walks 

 and runs ; but his walk is changed. If he is not quite 

 disposed, or feels himself equal to go the same distance 

 one day as another, he is indulged a little for that day ; 

 this induces him to go to his work with increased 

 energy the next, and he makes up for his little respite. 

 Cricket, raquette, sparring, and running with the 

 harriers, are all resorted to at times to vary the scene. 

 Provided the trainer gets a proper quantum of exercise 

 out of his man, he cares not how it is got ; nor is it 

 necessary the same precise quantum should be got 

 every day during a two months' training. A man 

 would be bored to death if he was trained as horses 

 are he would get peevish, dissatisfied, and dispirited ; 

 and then bring him on in his training if you can. 



It is true, horses are not men, nor do they possess 

 the minds of men, but they possess a something that 

 stands them in the stead ; a something, call it what 

 you will, that renders them perfectly sensible of what 

 they like and dislike: and they tell us this pretty 

 plainly when, if we have bored them by the same 

 eternal gallop for weeks, they bolt off to get out of it 

 when they come to do work. Work they must: I 

 have only been alluding to the preparation for work. 



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