230 THK SPORTING WORLD. 



Now I am quite satisfied that if there was 

 a day or two in the year, or even oftener, ap- 

 pointed in every large village in England, with 

 some little prizes to be rmi for, and a trifle 

 entrance for each man, it would not only create 

 amusement to the inhabitants, but it would have 

 an effect that possibly may not strike the casual 

 reader. I will show, or attempt to show, what 

 I mean by analogy. 



Some twenty years since the owners of cart 

 horses^ were content with seeing them do their 

 w^ork, whatever it might be, at the rate of 

 three miles an hour at their quickest ; it mat- 

 tered little whether at plough, drawing a waggon 

 with two tons on it or drawing that waggon 

 empty, they varied but little as to pace. It 

 would at that time have been held highly pre- 

 judicial to the animal to harry him ; in fact 

 from long habit they were all but incapable of 

 accelerated motion. The men who went with 

 ihem were the same ; capable or incapable both . 



