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pretty go! — The first go was wrong in going to such 

 fellows. 



But suppose ]\rr. Rascal does not mean to go, but 

 stands his ground, and takes the horse back ; he then 

 brings this violent customer of a horse to his senses 

 in another way, and for a more permanent (but still 

 temporary) period. He ties my gentleman's head up 

 to the rack, Avhicli he gives him full permission to 

 look at ; if he can derive any nourishment from that, 

 he is at liberty to do so : a man is placed behind liim 

 Avitli a whip night and day ; this keeps the horse from 

 getting a wink of sleep — the man of course relieved 

 by a substitute. The horse does not find himself 

 particularly relieved by this process, nor is the substi- 

 tute behind him and two or three pounds of hay and 

 a little water a very pleasant substitute for good 

 feeding ; nor is the addition of his forty-eight hours' 

 vigil any pleasing addition to his comfort. Mr. Horse 

 begins to find this any thing but a joke, and keeps 

 looking round as far as he can to see if any one is 

 coming. Kiglit glad would he be to welcome the very 

 man whose brains he would have tried to have 

 knocked out two days before if he went up to him ; 

 but no, there is the man on the stool of reform, and 

 Mr. Horse finds himself on the stool of repentance. 

 He is now well prepared by abstinence for a dose of 

 physic ; very sick ; no sleep allowed ; warm water ad 

 libitum ; must not be made to look too lanky. B}'' 

 the time the physic has done, and four days and 

 niohts of constant wakefulness, with nothing; but a 

 little bran and warm water, have passed, what with 

 Aveakness, drowsiness, and fatigue, there is little doubt 

 of the horse carrying quietly enough. He is accord- 

 ingly ridden ; if any remains of restiveness or vice 



