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make a horse go quiet, I will shortly show what I 

 know is done to prevent his doing so. "When this is 

 the order of the day, as it requires a man that knows 

 his business to make a restive bad-disposed horse go 

 quiet, so I can assure my readers a good deal of 

 knowledge of the thing is required to make a good- 

 tempered one appear the reverse ; but it is to be done 

 even while the owner is looking on, and (unless indeed 

 he knows as much as those employed about the horse) 

 it will be done without his detecting the means used. 

 It requires, however, quick fellows and workmen to 

 do it, just upon the same ])rinciple, as that no half 

 dozen men knowing little of music could, for the life 

 of them, make half such horrible discord as the same 

 mumber of perfect musicians. Discord, God knows, 

 the former would treat us to, but not such discord 

 as the latter could make if they chose to try. Why ? 

 because the same want of knowledge that would pre- 

 vent the former making harmony, would prevent their 

 making the most loerfect discord. 



We will try shortly if we cannot put our horse's 

 temper out of tune. 



I suppose that in my general intercourse with the 

 world — by world I mean mankind — it has fallen to 

 my lot to meet with about the usual varieties of 

 tempers incidental to my fellow-men — that is, good 

 tempers, bad tempers, infernal tempers, and interme- 

 diate tempers. There are some tempers so even and 

 serene, that nothing short of ill-usage, injustice, or 

 insult, can turn them from the even tenor of their 

 way : others, that the slightest contradiction causes 

 their owners to 'play porcupine at once, a habit that 

 would be mighty pleasant in a wife, if the possibility 

 existed of ladies showing temper. Then there are 



