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liowever severe tliey may be ; but tliey are made 

 to do it, and consequently do not do it like gen- 

 tlemen^s hunters. I could find in tlie Oxford or 

 Cambridge stables, hunters that are let out by the 

 day, who could be made to do quite as much as 

 the highest-priced horse out, go as straight, and 

 go as long. I never mounted a hired hunter in 

 m}^ life, but have seen many others on them, so I 

 speak as an eye-witness in this matter ; but I 

 should feel no gratification in riding such. I hate 

 the idea of making either horse or man do any- 

 thing for me by compulsion ; do it willingly, or I 

 have no pleasure in what is done. I could avail 

 myself of the capability of an unwilling horse to 

 fetch a doctor for a friend in a case of emergency, 

 and would draw his capabilities out if steel and 

 whipcord could do it ; but I would no more ride 

 such a horse for my own gratification as a hunter, 

 be he the best in the world, than I would get the 

 doctor to trepan me under a similar idea. Still 

 less would I ride a horse unwilling from over- 

 work ; and the better I knew the animal in nature 

 to be, the more it would go against me to call on 

 him for efforts that I knew must be made with 

 pain to himself : in fact, for whatever purpose we 

 use a horse, I hold it to be indispensable that he 

 does his work with a certain degree of pleasure 

 to himself, if we expect to derive any pleasure 

 from his exertions. The moment work becomes 



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