250 IMPROVEMENT SHOULD AT LEAST BE ATTEMPTED. 



where he can neither see nor hear anything to stimu- 

 late him : put a light steady boy on him, and on a 

 retired exercise ground let him go long and very slow 

 gallops with as easy a bit in his mouth as he can 

 possibly be held with : he will shortly learn to lean a 

 little on this, and, having nothing to animate him, 

 will in a few lessons get into an even stroke, which 

 he would never do so long as he lived if ridden in 

 company, ridden fast, or in confined situations. 



Half the persons who breed or buy colts seem to 

 think that if the animal has any particular fault or 

 faults, it is a kind of dispensation of Providence that 

 they are to have a colt with such faults : that it is, in 

 short, their lot, and also the lot of the colt, to pass 

 through life with the failings he possesses. I suppose, 

 if we gave one of these fatalists a chair with only 

 three legs to it, they would sit on it all their lives in 

 a most uncomfortable position to keep it on a balance. 

 Now as I like to sit easy, and being moreover a bit of 

 a carpenter, the first thing I should do would be to 

 mend the chair. I certainly could not make as hand- 

 some a job of it as an upholsterer could, but I certainly 

 would put on what should answer the purpose of a 

 leg, and enable me to sit comfortably : at any rate 

 the chair should not remain with three, that's poz. 

 So with the colt : I could not make a bad goer per- 

 haps as good a one as if he was naturally so ; but I 

 will answer for it, be a colt's fault what it might, if I 

 did not eiFectually cure it, I would make it better. 

 People not attempting to do this is one reason why 

 we see so many brutes of horses in use as we daily 

 do see. 



I will now venture a few remarks on the education 

 of horses destined to harness, and I believe most 



