THE GENERAL PURPOSE HORSE 



THERE are many people who have neither 

 the time nor the opportunity to keep an 

 estabhshment of hunters or hacks or 

 harness horses. Or perhaps they have not the 

 means. Yet they can find sufficient work for one 

 horse provided he will carry a saddle one day and 

 go in harness the next. Now a great deal of 

 pleasure can be got out of a horse in this way and 

 I have known many men who were very properly 

 proud of the good horse who contributed so 

 much to their happiness — aye as proud as a 

 hunting man of his three hundred guinea flyer, 

 or the owner of the stylish hack or harness horse 

 that wins prizes at all the big shows. 



It must not be supposed that a horse of this 

 kind will be easily found or will be very low in 

 price, for the man who keeps but one horse and 

 that horse for two purposes, ought to get a 

 good one of the sort, or he will find perhaps he 

 has got a horse that will be off work a consider- 

 able proportion of his time. This is sufficiently 

 annoying when a man has a stable to choose 

 from ; it is exasperating when he has only 

 one horse. 



In the early part of the nineteenth century 



