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CHAPTEE Y. 



THE ROAD HACK. 



I WILL here give a brief description of the 

 several classes of saddle-horses required in this 

 country for civil purposes. 



The Egad Hack, worked as he is on hard 

 metal roads, cannot combine speed with dura- 

 bility, as the rate of fourteen to eighteen miles 

 an hour would soon wear out his feet and legs, 

 wdien he would only be fit for a tradesman's 

 cart or cab w^ork, therefore a horse of this sort 

 should be a good walker, and be able to trot 

 from eight to twelve or fourteen miles an hour, 

 doing it with good, true, and level action, being 

 neither too high nor too low, for with low action 

 when he has gone some distance and begins to 

 feel tired he will trip over stones or inequalities 

 in the ground, and very possibly fall, and if the 



