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out for a locomotive. He knew me at last so well, 

 that on my appearance, though the place was sur- 

 rounded by a thick quickset hedge that would have 

 stopped even the Scotch Greys, he charged it in any 

 part : through he went ; the hedge closed up, and he 

 was gone. In short, with me behind him, he would 

 have broke the ranks of every regiment at Waterloo 

 from La Papelotte to Hougoumont. I had not made 

 up my mind whether or not the fun of ejecting piggy 

 was not an equivalent for the fruit he plundered, 

 when it was decided for me, and a yoke was put on 

 him. This opened a new held of sport to me, for 

 piggy, not being as good a judge of the possible and 

 impossible as " Capability Brown*," at every step 

 endeavoured to lift his legs over the yoke in the most 

 ridiculous manner possible ; while I, on observing he 

 did this the more the faster he went, kept him in 

 pretty strong trotting exercise in order to witness 

 his performance. After the fruit was got in, the 

 yoke was taken off, and piggy set at liberty ; and I, 

 finding no more fun was to be got out of him, let him 

 alone to recruit himself for next season. I saw, how- 

 ever, that, though unyoked, he had got so habituated 

 to his high action that he kept it up. This in after- 

 times gave me the idea of trying to alter the action 

 of a horse, and, as I have shown, it succeeded. 



In educating horses, we have, it is true, instinct to 

 fall back upon ; that instinct in some particulars 

 almost amounting to reason we must allow, but it re- 

 quires a very considerable experience of the attributes 

 of horses to judge accurately when and how far we may 

 trust to their instinct. I will endeavour to show where 

 instinct will, and where it will not, serve the animal. 



* A celebrated and eccentric surveyor of the last century. 



