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The whip should never be thrown or placed in the 

 corner, but hung- up by the thick part of the thong upon 

 a wooden block or spring fixed in the harness room ; after 

 which the vehicle must be looked to and put under cover. 



During a conversation respecting the harnessing and 

 unharnessing of horses, a friend of the author's once 

 complained to him of the extreme restiveness of his 

 animal, in the stable, when fitting for the road, and vice 

 versa, and after a journey, in grooming, so much so, to use 

 his own words, that it became positively unsafe and 

 dangerous to approach the animal in the stable with any 

 part of the harness or tools, the horse seeming to get 

 every day worse and worse. The writer, on visiting the 

 stable, perceived that the moment the owner approached 

 his horse to take the head collar off, it began to tremble 

 from head to croup, and literally danced about the stable 

 at the merest touch, ultimately becoming actually savage, 

 bitinof and kickino- at the same time. The author watched 

 the business quietly through, and decided in his own 

 mind that the blame rested entirely with the man and not 

 the horse, the fact being that the owner commenced with, 

 and kept up, one continued system of shoutings at the 

 terrified and nervous tempered animal, which incessant 

 and excitable bawlings were mixed with anything but 

 poetical language, together with numerous gestures as 

 though it were his (the owner's) momentary intention to 

 suit the action to the word with the aid of the nearest 

 stable implement, causing the poor animal to fly from 

 side to side of the stable in a most frantic manner ; the 

 time consumed in this most dissfraceful and ridiculous 

 performance was over thirty minutes, ere the horse 

 was between the shafts and ready for the road. 



In answer to the owner's query — "What's my 

 remedy ? I've made up my mind to sell the brute." and 



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