186 CONFESSIONS OF A HOEPB DEALER* 



bravado, before a staring crowd. They are gifted witk 

 a patience that nothing can wear out, and a temper that 

 nothing (in the shape of horse-flesh) can ruffle. They 

 are never in a hurry, and go through their work in a 

 style and manner that proves them in every way quali- 

 fied for the business of educating the horse by teaching 

 him to regard man as his natural master and friend. 



The employment of horse-breakers should be es- 

 timated by its results, without reference to pecuniary 

 considerations ; and the union of interests between the 

 man and the horse, in sympathy of affections and com- 

 panionship, as also in the preservation of life and limb, 

 would amply make up the trifling difference in the 

 charges, to say nothing of our imperative duty to place 

 the noble animal in the hands of those trainers who treat 

 him with that kindness and consideration which all true 

 men and Christians acknowledge he so richly deserves. 



A horse will work until he drops and dies in the 

 service of man ; he cheerfully endures misery and suf- 

 fering, arising from hunger, thirst, chronic disease, and 

 painful or incurable lameness, which is every day to be 

 seen in London and the highways and bye- ways of the 

 provinces; but a high-couraged horse will invariably 

 revolt (if he has the power) against injustice and 

 brutality. 



"Who has not seen the country carter, with his oaths 

 and the butt- end of his whip; the London cabman, 

 with a piece of gutta percha, or twisted wire, at the 

 end of his lash ; the butcher's boy, with his left spur 



