CHAPTER IX. 



SO far, then, it has been stated how a per- 

 son would be least likely to be cheated 

 in buying a colt or a horse, and least likely 

 to spoil him in use, but particularly how one 

 could produce a horse with all the qualities 

 that a rider needs in war. Now, on the 

 chance that you should happen to have a 

 horse that is either too high-mettled for the 

 occasion or too sluggish, this is perhaps the 



