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gait is certainly very true and square. The rolling and 

 hitching you spoke of she has not shown yet, and I hope, 

 if we do not hurry her too fast, she will not resume that 

 very annoying habit. Mavourneen I will have to see 

 move again before I venture an opinion, as I fancied there 

 was something in her movement not quite satisfactory. 

 What a beauty she is ! Unlike your friend, who thinks 

 no man rich enough to buy her if she could trot in twen- 

 ty-five, if I owned her, a harness should never ruffle a sin- 

 gle pile of her golden hair. Much as I would admire the 

 grand picture Susan and the Falcon would make, I can 

 fancy one I would give more to possess. Imagine a grassy 

 dell where a sheeny brook is "singing a quiet tune/' 

 Jane is seated on a violet bank sketching an elm, its 

 branches rising like the capital of a Corinthian column, in 

 graceful reversed curves, crowned with a wealth of foliage 

 terminating the spray-like branches. Mavourneen is 

 standing by as if watching the transferring of the sylvan 

 monarch to the paper, too much attached to her beautiful 

 mistress to leave her side. The drawing finished, how 

 gayly the fair artist gallops homeward, the shining curls 

 floating in the ambient fluid ! But I cry your forbearance, 

 j,nd promise not to let the incidents of the last three 

 weeks interfere with the attention we must now give our 

 horses. 



PUPIL. Truly, I am sorry that you have come to that 

 conclusion, and trust we have time enough to talk of 

 something else besides horse. We who make the business 

 of training our chief occupation, are apt to be bored with 

 any other theme, till those who are thrown in our com- 

 pany think that horsemen are fitted for no other place 

 than a stable, or at most, some saloon where races are 

 made, and pools sold. We must educate ourselves, as well 

 as teach the quadrupeds, and much of the obloquy now 

 heaped on us will give way to a proper appreciation of the 



