HINTS TO YOUNG SPOETSMEN AND 0THEE8. / 



driving man, the trotting man, or he who keeps 

 horses merely as the means of affording him 

 healthful recreation ; but will, to the best of the 

 writer's ability, afford hints that may be useful 

 to him, let his pursuit be what it may • for whatever 

 it is, to teach him to do it at a proper cost and 

 in a proper way is the great desideratum. The 

 first is comparatively an easy task, though involving 

 a vast deal of circumspection, combination of ideas, 

 and experience in its details ; for to this each man 

 will lend a willing ear, satisfied that the writer can 

 have but one object in view, namely, the interest of 

 those for whose information he writes. The latter 

 part of the business is quite a different affair ; for 

 in that there is a certain personal vanity to contend 

 with, which requires very gentle handling. Each 

 man is wonderfully thin-skinned in this particular. 

 Any man, conscious that he knows little or nothing 

 about purchasing a horse, will be quite content 

 to have the best mode pointed out to him ; the man 

 quite unaccustomed to stable-practice will be quite 

 willing to be informed in this particular; but he 



