64 Our Noblest Friend, The Horse 



that point is reached, and he has regularly seen and 

 encountered every sort of disconcerting sight and 

 heard every kind of alarming noise. 



Now if the buyer will not pay for this labour 

 and skill in the wp.y of increased price, certainly the 

 seller is foolish to proceed any further than will en- 

 able his merchandise to pass muster. He is not in 

 business for his health, and if the pater-familias will 

 persist in buying for a hundred and fifty dollars a 

 horse which he knows is raw and " green" to town 

 and city sights, resolutely refusing to part with five 

 hundred dollars or thereabouts for a properly educa- 

 ted animal, let the woe be upon his head which his 

 utter folly invokes. 



In view of the increasing difficulties and dangers 

 attending progression along not only our highways 

 but our byways as well, it seems inevitable that our 

 horses must be prepared for all manner of hideous 

 sights and sounds before they are brought to the city 

 markets, and a not improbable part of the equine 

 schoolroom of the future will be gasping and toot- 

 ing automobiles, hissing steam-drills, snorting en- 



