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brilliancy of the eye was not heightened by proper train- 

 ing. It may not show as much briskness, as there is a 

 placid look acquired which might deceive you at the first 

 glance ; but as you look again, there is no glassy, unmean- 

 ing stare, and you look down into the clear depths till you 

 cannot but resolve that such an organ must belong to 

 more than an animal, and that it is a token of a being 

 endowed with that reason, which we haughtily arrogate 

 as only belonging to man. When the horse is led up to 

 start in a race, this placid look is changed to one as deter - 

 mined as ever flashed from beneath the brow of ancient 

 knight, attempting deeds that would either heighten his 

 renown to that of the great Arthur himself, or consign him 

 to an honorable grave. A fuming, fretty horse, that rears, 

 pitches, and refuses to come to the score when the time to 

 start has been signaled, has rarely the look I have at- 

 attempted to describe. He is either frightened at the 

 remembrance of unmerited punishment, or is so sore from 

 over or injudicious work, that he does not like to start. 

 I have interrupted the recital of your three-weeks' work 

 longer than I meant, and was led into the remarks I have 

 been making, from the appearance of the Falcon, showing, 

 as he does, better order than the length of time he has 

 been in training would warrant. 



PUPIL. The day after you left, I gave him the sweat he 

 was prepared for. I drove him the next day the usual 

 distance, as I knew from former experience that no de- 

 bility would follow in his case. The following day I drove 

 him the same distance, allowing him to brush down the 

 stretch, and he came rattling along without attempting to 

 break. I varied his work as you directed, driving him on 

 the road two or three times a week. I generally drove 

 him five miles out, coming back at a good round pace. 

 The track work has been faster and shorter than you in- 

 tended, as, from the anxiety he manifested to get along, he 



