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in a phaeton, or such like carriage, and with ladies 

 to alarm, I would no more trust to a horse who 

 had kicked, than I would to an enraged bull. The 

 very same horse that I should laugh at a man 

 pretending to be a coachman (as gentleman or 

 not), if he was afraid to drive, I would at once 

 entreat him to refuse for the service of a fiimily. 

 If, for such a purpose, a man bought such a horse 

 for his appearance, his vanity would be unjusti- 

 fiable and reprehensible ; if a diminished price 

 was the incentive to purchase, his sordidness 

 would be contemjDtible, and indeed criminal. 



A KUNAWAY. 



There are so many circumstances under which 

 a horse may, as it is in general phrase termed, 

 run away, that advice as to the purchase of such 

 a horse, or a horse having done this, must depend 

 on the circumstances under which the runaway 

 took place. For though, speaking in a general 

 way, w^e know that a horse who has once abso- 

 lutely run away, will be disposed to try it again, 

 still we are not with him (as we are with the 

 horse disposed to kick in a light low phaeton) 

 almost helpless ; here the best coachmanship may 

 become all but useless : but if a man has hands, 

 and a head of the right sort, a horse disposed to 

 run away is to be prevented doing so. Eunning 



