THE HORSE. 



OF all brute animals in a state of association with the human race, the HORSE 

 occupies the first and most important rank. He forms an indispensable link in 

 the chain of Creation : without him, nature's system and human enjoyments had 

 been incomplete. He contributes equally to the services, luxuries, and pleasures 

 of Man. Whether it be laboriously to till the soil, as an associate with the patient ox, 

 to carry the heaviest burdens, or to perform the longest and most painful journies, 

 the Horse is the ready and obedient slave of his master. Nature has endowed 

 this her favourite animal with a degree of intelligence and a generous inclination 

 to obedience, which render him highly susceptible of education. His form and 

 qualities are admirably adapted by the Eternal and Unerring Artist, to the particular 

 rank he is intended to fill in the scale of being. He is either fashioned to sustain 



