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based on experience, and will be found 

 trustworthy. It is intended to furnish 

 those who have finished a course of 

 riding, with facts and ideas which will be 

 useful to them as owners of horses, for it is 

 not enough to learn the meclianical business 

 of sitting on and directing a horse ; the 

 horseman should sympathize with his four- 

 footed servant, and should be acquainted 

 with the best modes of treating him. He 

 should also have some knowledge of* horse- 

 breakin:/, and insist, whenever he has the 

 authority to do so, on its being carried out 

 in a kind and reasonable way. 



