190 RESTIVE TEMPER. 



three minutes ; then I observed a mo- 

 tion in the skin of his neck like a slight 

 relaxation of the muscles ; his ears first 

 almost imperceptibly moved, then ner- 

 vously pricked forward. Suddenly, with 

 one bound he went off; the other horse was 

 with him instantly, and keeping the wheel- 

 horses up, we went a merry pace for the 

 first mile, when we gradually dropped into 

 a fair trot till we reached the "Wheat 

 Sheaf," at Barkway, where we pulled up. 

 It being up-hill nearly all the way, there 

 was no danger of his getting the better of 

 me. Here we stopped two or three mi- 

 nutes, and at starting he would have played 

 the same trick again, but, after two or three 

 antics, he suffered the other horse to lead 

 him off. 



I continued daily to drive him, and he 

 would frequently show his restive temper ; 

 but there was no other way than to watch 

 and wait for him. Once I had occasion to 

 turn back and exchange with the man who 



