THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



The express passes through ten minutes be- 

 fore the slow train we ship on is due, so the 

 babies get accustomed to the rush and noise 

 of a locomotive after a few trips. At first 

 Sidney hitches up, gets down, and holds the 

 foal by the halter, stroking and talking to it. 

 Generally its mother is the horse between the 

 shafts, which also gives it confidence. The 

 pasture used for the colts in summer is near the 

 cut in the woods, where the railway passes 

 through, so familiarity breeds the usual con- 

 tempt, and steam-engines have no terrors for 

 our young horses. 



It may seem a lot of trouble to train colts 

 from babyhood, instead of leaving them wild 

 until two and a half or three years old, and it 

 probably would be impossible if the business 

 was being conducted on a large scale; but 

 with only a few brood mares, and a liking for 

 animals, it is a pleasure that saves trouble, 

 risk, and much cruelty to sensitive, nervous 

 creatures. Think how terrifying it must be 

 to a young horse of two or three years old, 



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