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in a very short time. A groom happened to be 

 riding along the road just as the disconcerted farmer 

 had finished pushing the remains of the trap off the 

 highway, and looking up, exclaimed, " Well, it beats 

 all ! I never saw him do it before ! " " No," replied 

 the groom, sarcastically, *'he did it behi7id this time!" 

 This, then, is a case where the horse was perfectly 

 quiet so long as nothing unusual occurred to annoy 

 him, but whenever the strap broke he went perfectly 

 mad simply because he had never been trained to 

 appreciate such an emergency. If he had, the un- 

 fortunate farmer in all likelihood would not have 

 got his trap smashed. 



THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TRAINERS. 



The reason of the accident — at least the reason 

 of the bad result — can be traced back to carelessness 

 on the part of the breaker. Thus, the negligence 

 of cnc man may be of serious consequence to another 

 in the management of horses, for horses, like most 

 oLhcr animals and commodities are continually chang- 

 ing owners, some for better and some for worse. 



