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riage out of pine or basswood, using sole leather for the 

 tire, the man "who bought it might be disappointed, for 

 it would not do him the service he had expected. Well, 

 now has he any reason to find fault with the workman- 

 ship, which he examined for himself? I think not. 

 Well, should he curse the timber of which it was made? 

 Certainly not; for it is good for the purpose for which it 

 was designed. But the deception consists in a misap- 

 plication of the material of which the wagon was naade, 

 which was not intended to take the place of iron, nor the 

 white oak and sugar maple. Thus it is with horses; 

 they are all good in their proper spheres; they may be 

 bred too delicate of constitution or limb for the climate 

 they are employed in, but this is no fault of theirs. The 

 wants of man are so varied that there are none of these 

 animals found so large or small, swift or slow, but that 

 they may be profitably employed for some purpose or 

 other. 



The minds and tastes of men differ as much (and per- 

 haps more), than the size, shape and color of horses; 

 therefore it would be a pretty nice piece of work for one 

 man to accomplish, to select a horse that would please 

 all his neighbors in every respect. Therefore, when I 

 see a horse that is well adapted and calculated for the 

 business that he is employed in, whether it is on the 

 farm or the road, on the canal, in livery or menagerie, 

 in saddle or harness, I call him a good horse. But a 

 clearer view of my idea or fancy of a good horse, and 

 one that will be most likely to please the eye of many, 

 may be had by referring to my description of the same 

 in the chapter on breeding, &c. 



