420 HORSE PORTRAITURE. 



I know a veterinarian that greatly excels in performing 

 this very painful operation. I have seen legs that he has 

 fired from the knee to the coronet, when the marks of the 

 firing iron have been hardly discoverable, and yet the 

 effect has been equally as good as in those cases disfigured 

 with ugly scars and rigid callouses. By the way, how do 

 the horses like the company of the galloping fellow ? 



PUPIL. I cannot say whether they consider the acquisi- 

 tion of his company pleasurable or not. The Falcon does 

 not pay much attention to him any more, if he will only 

 stay behind ; but the moment he takes the lead, he will 

 exert every nerve to overtake him, and never gives up try- 

 ing as long as the runner is in advance. I know, as well as 

 if he could tell me in words, what he thinks, and there is no 

 doubt, in my mind, that his cogitations are, if we would 

 only put a saddle on him, there is not a man about the 

 place that he could not carry, and beat that short-gaited 

 fellow, that thought it quite a trick to run ahead of a 

 horse, encumbered with wheels and forced to keep a gait 

 immeasureably slower than his natural one. Never Mind, 

 when the horse laps him, will fairly fly, and keeps him to 

 a good racing pace for a couple of hundred yards, al- 

 though, when he gets a few lengths clear in the lead, he 

 loses heart, and if still pushed, does not go with the 

 animation that characterizes his efforts when he thinks 

 he is beating him. Jane surprised me with the quietness 

 which she displays in his company, and will accommodate 

 her pace to the one the runner goes at, and is prompted 

 more by the command of her driver to go faster, than she 

 is by the desire to leave him. May is like her sire, and 

 cannot bear to be stopped while he is yet ahead. Delle I 

 only tried once, and she was so much excited that I did 

 not repeat the experiment. 



PRECEPTOR. The probable reason for Jane's immobility 

 is that she never yet has been in a race; and the sole cause 



