188 HOKSE POKTEAITUKE. 



He is like some of those old pictures, tlie work of a maste! 

 hand, that never fairly display their beauties till patient 

 study has discovered in them perfections of art, that ap- 

 peared at first sight a mere confused mass of colors. The 

 colt requires the same study in order to bring out points 

 of speed and durability. 



I will now bid you good-bye. On my way I will drop 

 into the stable to give the Falcon my valediction. In 

 two weeks I will return, and he will be the first horse I 

 shall want to see harnessed. 



