200 THE HORSE AND HIS EIDER. 



under the intelligent superintendence of Colonel Henry 

 Sandham, Director of the Royal Engineers' Establishment 

 at Chatham.) 



Extract from the Queen's Regulations, page 126. 



" In order that the cavalry may, upon emergencies, be 

 available for the purposes of draught, such as assisting 

 artillery, &c., through deep roads, and in surmounting 

 other impediments and obstacles which the carriages of 

 the army have frequently to encounter in the course of 

 active service, ten men per troop are to be equipped with 

 the tackle of the lasso." 



In Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and a consi- 

 derable portion of South America, for every purpose of 

 drawing, a horse is confined between two traces ; and 

 accordingly, whenever for the first time in his life he is 

 placed in this predicament, so soon as one of them touches 

 or tickles him on one side, he flies from it to the other 

 trace, which suddenly arrests him, and, usually blind- 

 folded by blinkers, being ignorant of, as well as alarmed 

 at, the unknown objects that are restraining him, he occa- 

 sionally endeavours to disperse them by kicking; and 

 even if he submits, it requires some little experience to 

 tranquillize his fears. For these reasons, throughout the 

 regions enumerated, a horse that has never been in har- 

 ness, however valuable he may be, is totally useless in a 

 moment of emergency for the purposes of draught. 



