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up in so short a space as I did Never Mind, after allowing 

 her to get nearly to her best speed. 



PBECEPTOR. We will have her as obedient as any of 

 them, before we call on her to display her speed even for 

 a short distance, and I feel safe in assuring you that she 

 will be less trouble on that score than the one you have 

 just driven. The bay mare's faults are those that have 

 been engendered by bad handling ; her natural disposition 

 is better than that of Never Mind, and her phrenological 

 developments are certainly much superior. 



PUPIL. I think the long journey has been an advantage 

 to the Falcon as well as King. He never drove as kindly 

 on the track as he has since he has been here. 



PBEOEPTOB. In place of ascribing the improvement to 

 the journey on the cars, is it not more likely to follow 

 your own improved skill in driving him ? It is not very 

 flattering to our self-love to admit that we are more to 

 blame than the horses, yet nine cases in ten it will 

 prove so. 



Here we are comfortably seated, and have time enough 

 before dinner to say a good deal on the topic we are going 

 to discuss. Should I advance any ideas that are not clearly 

 understood, or that you differ from in opinion, do not hes- 

 itate to interrupt me, so as to have the matter stated in 

 a clearer light, or show by argument that the grounds I 

 take are untenable. 



The natural outlets of the body are the skin, bowels, and 

 kidneys. With their aid we get rid, of what the old train- 

 ers called the waste and spare. We can increase the action 

 of all of them by articles given as food or medicine. The 

 evacuations through the numerous pores of the skin are 

 what we call sweating, the effects of which when properly 

 used being to bring a horse into such a state, called con- 

 dition, that he can do, without injury, what would be an 

 impossibility for him to perform without its aid. I have 



