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CHAPTER II. 



VARIATIONS OF TEMPERAMENT IN MEN 



AND HORSES. 



There is just the same amount of difference be- 

 tween a well-trained and a badly-trained horse, as 

 there is between a well-educated and an under-edu- 

 cated person. The one is cultured and refined, the 

 other awkward and coarse, or, to use a very popular 

 expression, '' He is just as Nature made him." 



No one of ordinary appreciative ability requires 

 to be long in the company of another to discover 

 whether he has been well educated or not, nor does 

 it take the skilled horseman more than a few minutes 

 to determine the training" of a horse, whether it has 

 been good or bad ; thus, to a great extent, horses are 

 made pretty much what they are according to their 

 breaking and management. Even a quiet horse in 

 bad hands may very soon become unmanageable. 



SYMPATHY BET\VEEN HORSE AND MAN. 



There is a peculiar link of sympathy between horse 

 and man, and that is : — that a horse just requires about 

 the same time to find out a man's merits or demerits 



