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spirited or dull colts make serviceable horses, I conceive is due to 

 the grace of God more than to man's agency, that fine grace, I 

 mean, spread abroad through and existing in all His creatures, 

 which operates in regenerating continually, making the good better, 

 preventing those whose circumstances forbid their becoming good 

 from becoming absolutely bad. 



The author of this book is known to me as one of the gifted 

 ones of the earth, because he is gifted to discern the nature of 

 animals, and educate them for man's service. The possession of 

 this gift suggested his mission, and well has he followed it, and by 

 it been educated himself to a degree rarely, if ever, attained by man 

 before. I doubt if there be on the globe his equal in knowledge as 

 to the best method of training horses. Through this volume he 

 seeks to give the public the benefit of his experience. I bespeak for 

 it the careful perusal of the curious, and of those especially whose 

 judgment and heart alike prompt them to seek for and promulgate 

 knowledge, which, being popularized, would make the people more 

 humane and horses more serviceable 



W. H. H. M. 



