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hy tranquillizing rather than exciting, to induce him to 

 take as little out of himself at each, as is possible. 



With considerate treatment of this sort, a warrior or 

 a sportsman may go from a given point to another in a 

 given time without distressing his horse, while the hot- 

 faced man who, in attempting to follow him, has been 

 straining through heavy ground, rushing up steep accli- 

 vities, restraining in going down hills, and galloping at 

 every fence, large or small, has not only blown his poor 

 horse, but as he sits astride his panting body and bleeding 

 sides, fancies he has done so b^ going fast ; and accord- 

 ingly, when he sees afar off the fellow who, on an inferior 

 animal, has outstripped him, he contemptuously wonders 

 to himself how such a tortoise could possibly have beaten 

 such a hare ! 



Use and Abuse of Spues. 



Buxtorff, in describing the horses, chariots, and riders 

 of the ancient Egyptians, says that the word " ParashJ^ 

 or rider, is derived from the Hebrew root to prick, or 

 spur. 



In horsemanship there is no subject so worthy of consi- 

 deration, most especially by any one wearing the name of 

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