20 CARRIAGE HORSES. 



and tneir dispositions patient, gentle, and obedient. 

 It very often happens that horses are kept together as 

 a match, on account of their colour and similarity of 

 marks, when no respect is paid to their difference of 

 form, spirit, and movements, which often differ as 

 widely as the mettled racer from the dull cart horse. 

 When thus badly matched, they would very soon 

 be separated by a good judge, and nothing short of 

 necessity should ever permit them to draw together. 

 Carriage horses should carry good tails, naturally or 

 artificially, which adds much to their gay and elegant 

 appearance; presenting figures ready, apparently, to 

 move upon the wind, whilst they are perfectly gentle 

 and manageable. Horses of different colours, whose 

 spirit, size, and movements are similar, are a much 

 better match in harness than those of the same colour, 

 with three or four inches difference in height; or one 

 dull, and the other spirited; one young, the other old; 

 one fat, the other poor ; one with a bald face and white 

 legs, the other with white legs ; or one active, and the 

 other clumsy. 



I have thus taken up the time of the reader, to make 

 him the better judge, and give him a correct idea of 

 a bad match of carriage horses, which will assist him 

 much in selecting those that are good. After being 

 thoroughly satisfied about the shape, age, condition, 

 &c., of a pair of carriage horses you may be about to 

 purchase, it will be necessary, in justice to yourself, 

 to try them in harness ; though the seller will assure 

 you they are as gentle as lambs, true as honour, and 

 finally, the best pair of horses in the world; although 

 it is possible for such a statement to be a fact, I would 

 advise that a trial should be made, and the purchaser 

 become his own judge ; for which purpose have them 

 hitched in a carriage, and driven several times up and 



