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BREAKING AND TRAINING. 



mark of its requirements, and also permitted time to comprehend, before 

 it is lashed to perform — being allowed the benefits of practice prior to 

 being expected to exhibit its accomplishments — being simply treated 

 after a manner that every grade of reason must recognize as just, — would 

 come forth in the full possession of all its natural powers, and would 

 distance the swarm of equine babies which now disgrace the thorough- 

 fares, encumber the field, and ruin the race-course. It would be fitted 

 to carry a man in any manly sport ; and it would be able, not being 

 distraught by bodily pains, to sympathize in the pleasures of its rider, 

 and to share the amusement in which he delighted. 



One peculiarity, illustrative of the present mode of preparing quad- 

 rupeds for exertion, is to be witnessed in most hunting fields. The 

 young gentleman who pays hundreds, perhaps, for his "mount," and 

 whose horse has been long under the trainer's care, is usually "no- 

 where'''' at the death, although he is at liberty to choose his way and to 

 regulate liis pace according to his pleasure ; whereas the huntsman, 

 seated on a screw which has been hacked throughout the summer, is 

 generally foremost in the chase. 



THE OLD HUNTER AND THE TOUNO STEED. 



This seeming inconsistency evidently favors those notions which the 

 author has presumed to promulgate. The wealthy scion of aristocracy 



