ated churn, and having all of the merits of a distinct aird 

 engaging personality. 



The moods and humors of a horse are as various, as 

 versatile, and as uncertain as are those of a woman. They 

 are just as easily predicated, and this, of course, gives to 

 one's equine comrade, all of the pleasure of the indefinite, 

 and unknowable. Nor are we confined to the vagaries of 

 but one horse. There are available for us all of these mul- 

 tiplied by just as many different horses as our inclinations 

 may insight, and our check books aflford. 



Golf links are all very much alike. Every horse is just 

 as different from every other horse, as one star differs 

 from another. And usually the bonds between the horse 

 and the rider is the closest, excepting only that between 

 sweethearts, by which mortals are bound- If the poet in 

 describing the affection of the Arab for his horse exagger- 

 ated, when he said, "more than maiden, more than wife, 

 more than gold, and next to life, Russian the robber loved 

 his horse," he exaggerated only a little. 



And here we come upon one of the links in the chain 

 by which men and women are so securely bound to their 

 equine friend. For the horse is to its owner an object 

 of real aflfection. Most people who own saddle horses 

 love them, and their horses have a real personality that 

 makes them objects of a genuine affection. Our horse is 

 an object upon which we can pour out all of the pent-up 

 emotions that arise in the human breast, and be sure of 

 a just, even though dumb, appreciation and reciprocation. 

 If our horses are frequently the objects of an almost idola- 

 trous worship, we need never know that they are squan- 

 dered upon an unrequited and ungrateful object. For we 

 do know that, just as many people do really love their 

 horses, so their horses do also love them. 



Even this is not the whole of the story. For horseback 

 exercising is a social enjoyment that extends beyond the 

 comradeship cf the rider and his mount. It is a pleasure 



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