268 a\ery's own farrier. 



thing, they start, and, before he is able to gather the 

 lines sufficiently to stop them, his load is landed perhaps 

 bottom upwards in the ditch. Well, he crawls up on 

 the road again and loads up, goes along a short distance, 

 and meets another team, when he has another dilemma 

 to pass through. However he braces himself up in the 

 fore end of his carriage and immediately succeeds in 

 hauling up his lines sufficiently to turn his horses' heads 

 to one side of the path he is pursuing; and then with both 

 hands forward of the splash board, continually shaking 

 the lines, and halloing " hep, hep, hep," he comes into 

 the road again (in case they do not lock wheels) and 

 then, with a free use of the whip, on he goes until he 

 comes along near a house or another object where his 

 horse wants to stoj) again, when he has only to repeat 

 the last operation, viz: the shake, hep and whip, to go 

 on as happy as a clam. 



Men who drive fast, generally have fast horses; not 

 so much because they have swift horses, but because fast 

 driving makes swift horses. Therefore the best direc- 

 tions I can give you to make horses swift, will be in the 

 language of another, " drive fast, and stop often." 



A horse can generally be trained to a dull and logy, 

 or to an airy and fleety gait. Any strong and muscu- 

 lar horse, that is sound, and has been no ways previously 

 injured, can be trained to a fast gait. Nature unquestion- 

 ably does much; but education and training does far more 

 towards producing the great difference in the speed of 

 horses than most people are willing to admit. Horses 

 are oftener injured by driving them beyond their habit- 

 ual gait, than beyond their native power. 



