4 GENERAL REMARKS AND INFORMATION. 



turns out to be well worth the money, the owner's 

 friends at once ask where it came from, and in many 

 cases a good order is the result ; by this means the 

 dealer is recommended from one to the other. This 

 is how things should be, then one need not fear to buy 

 a horse, even though he mav not know much about 

 them himself. As I travel much in almost every 

 county in England during the twelve months, I see a 

 great deal of changing hands with horses, but I prefer 

 breeding my own, unless I can get them direct from the 

 breeder or farmer. I am determined never to have 

 anything to do with horse-dealers, if I do I shall want 

 the animal a month on trial. When a horse is being 

 sold I am sure it would be much better if the person 

 selling told the intending purchaser the faults of the 

 animal. When I have one for sale, I always do this, 

 but it is very seldom I have one to spare. 



Horses are often abused because those who drive 

 them are accustomed to stop outside public-houses. It 

 often grieves me when I see poor horses on a very wet 

 day standing shivering outside these places. If horses 

 could tell tales what strange stories many of them could 

 relate. Though they are dumb animals they are 

 wonderfully intelligent. Many young horses are spoiled in 

 breaking-in, while others are ruined after they are broken-in. 

 If a horse is broken-in properly it seems to know almost 

 every word that is said to it. 



Horse-breeding is largely on the increase in England, 

 and from the last six to ten years horses have been 



