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'*I will try birn. I can tell in driving' him ten rods 

 if he sails all right." 



Jack came back. 



'' Doan. he is all risi-ht." 



This great science of working on the horse is called 

 bragging by men that have no knowledge of the 

 horse. 



To-daj while stopping to rest a little I was called a 

 brag. "They will not place much confidence in 

 your book, you are such a brag.'' -He quoted that old 

 fool ''They,'' as all ignorant people do. A man might 

 think, to hear such men talk, that ihey or they say was 

 the highest authority that could be appealed to — equal 

 to the creator. The man that perfected this work 

 never paid any attention to what They Say says; if he 

 had, it would never have been perfected. I would 

 like to have some of these wonderfully smart teachers 

 tell me how to introduce any new discovery without 

 writing or talking about it. You cannot put any ma- 

 chine in practical operation without talk to introduce 

 it; and of all the machines lever saw, the horse is the 

 greatest. When he is as the creator made him, he is 

 the most complicated. Men l^ave tried to improve this 

 machine, and have spoilt nearly all they have worked 

 on, sooner or later, by ironing their feet. No proof is 

 needed ; neither will it admit of denial, for it stands 

 in bold relief all over the land, g'o where you will. 



Let us go to the fair at Elmira and see the show of 

 horses while there. It will be best to keep quiet. 

 Some big guns on the horse will be there, and we can 

 learn more to get in some quiet place and look on. It 

 will be no use to talk horse here ; you will set them 



