USE AND SHOW. 



No horse owner would confess to keeping even one 

 animal solely to look at, but many men do so by more 

 than one horse. Every horse is kept, or supposed to be 

 kept, for some purpose more or less useful, and, as there 

 are many about who perform no useful duties whatever, 

 it may be fairly assumed that they are kept to look at, 

 though their owners would never acknowledge the fact. 

 A hunter which cannot cross a country is not a very 

 uncommon article, nor is a harness horse whose pace in 

 harness is about equal to that of an energetic pedestrian 

 an unheard-of thing; while, again, there are scores of 

 so-called hacks to be met with who shy, stumble, are 

 restive, or in other ways shirk their duty, which is to 

 carry a man safely along the road. All such animals are 

 kept to look at, unless they have some other talent of a 

 different nature from those which their professions would 

 argue the possession of. Thus the useless hunter may 

 be a rare harness horse; but if he be only a useless 

 hunter, and nothing more, he will be " kept to look at," 

 for a time depending upon the judgment and luck of his 

 owner. 



Some men never know when they have a good horse ; 

 many more don't know when they are in possession of a 

 real brute. The latter will keep the useless brute and 

 believe him to be valuable, and if the owner be satisfied 

 no one else has a right to complain. A good judge, on 

 the other hand, may occasionally be saddled with a brute ; 



