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cotton, like sail-cloth, which, answered a very good pur- 

 pose. Our horses were " worked " so hard that the deli- 

 cate ones were soon got rid of ; though I think, with the 

 improved handling of the present day, many, rejected as 

 worthless, would have proved very different animals, and 

 as often winners as those whose temper enabled them to 

 stand the severe drilling which they got. My cigar is 

 nearly ended, so we will bring this conversation to an 

 end. I am anxious to have a good look at that black fel- 

 low that so took my eye at first sight. 



PUPIL. Here we are back to the stable ; one of my 

 rules is never to smoke in the stable, or suffer any one 

 employed there to do so. Visitors, of course, have to be 

 tolerated in the bad practice. Boy, bring out the Falcon. 



PRECEPTOE. All right, boy ; give him his head ; I want 

 to look at him from a distance first. Turn him partly 

 around. Now run alongside of him across the yard ; 

 come a little faster as you approach me ; that will do. 



Well, scholar, I told you that sometime I would give 

 you my idea of model roadster, and there stands nearer 

 my ideal, than any I have yet seen. Before going into 

 detail of his form, I will engage to make a trotter of him, 

 no matter how much he has been abused in his training. 

 I make this promise not only from the fine action ho 

 exhibited while trotting across the yard, but from thc.t 

 peculiar head, ear, and eye, that all show sense. Horses 

 have just as many degrees of sense as men, and Daniel 

 Webster's "dome of thought" never more palpably 

 showed his superiority over the majority of mankind, 

 than does this horse over his .compeers. His head is 

 large, yet you would not find enough meat on it to furn- 

 ish a pet kitten with his supper. Look how the clearly 

 cat nostril is just extended enough to discern the edge of 

 the pink lining. There is an India rubber look about it 

 that shows the orifice can be enlarged so as to admit all 



