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to the creature. Most of us are satisfied with very 

 Httle, and recognise no need for any advance beyond 

 the most crude service, — just as in the case of our 

 own children we deem the ordinary curriculum of 

 the public schools of various grades all-sufficient, and 

 neither encourage nor tolerate further exploration 

 into the fields of knowledge. The higher branches 

 of education are in both cases considered superfluous, 

 yet injustice is done as much to the horse as to the 

 child if education is not carried as far as circum- 

 stances will allow. 



Every buyer when he enters the horse marts seeks 

 for a " patent safety conveyance " for himself and 

 his family, yet by mistaken ideas of economy, and 

 by unwillingness to pay reasonable prices for such 

 articles, renders such development of the animal's 

 moral and mental powers impossible to the purveyor. 

 To make a horse safe, fearless, and reliable, he must 

 be shown and familiarised with all objects at Vast 

 expenditure of time, labour, and money. There is 

 no other way to do it, and as the animal fears noth- 

 ing he is familiar with, rehearsals must go on until 



