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an error to punisli for either starting or stumbling ; the 

 one is the effect of fear, which cannot be cured by the whip, 

 the other, iu most cases, of malformation or of tenderness 

 in the foot, which certainly cannot be treated successfully 

 by chastisement, which, in fact, aggravates and confirms 

 instead of alleviating or curing. 



In speaking of driving at an equal pace, we would not, of 

 course, be understood to mean that horses should be driven 

 at the same gait and speed over all roads, and over grounds 

 of all natures. Far from it. A good driver will, while 

 going, always, at the rate of ten miles — we will say — an 

 hour, never, perhaps, have his horses going at exactly the 

 same rate for any two consecutive twenty minutes. Over 

 a dead level, the hardest of all things except a long con- 

 tinuous ascent of miles, he will spare his horses. Over a 

 rolling road, he will hold them hard in hand as he crosses 

 the top and descends the first steep pitch of a descent; will 

 swing them down the remainder at a pace which will jump 

 them across the intervening flat and carry them half way 

 up the succeeding hill ; and will catch them in hand again 

 and hold them hard over the top, as we have shown before 



Horses in work should be watered about once, with not 

 to exceed two quarts, after every ten miles, or every hour, 

 if one be travelling fast ; and if travelling far, they should be 

 well fed once in the middle of their journey. This point, 

 however, ha? been discussed already under the head of 

 feeding. 



In closing, -^ e would say, always remember, in using a 

 horse, that it cannot be done with too much coolness, too 

 much gentleness, too much discretion, or too much kindness. 



There is no better beast in the world than a horse, nor 

 any one which, though often most cruelly misused by man, 

 BO well deserves, and so amply, by his services, repays the 

 best usage. 



