300 ATTACHMENT OF HORSE AND RIDER. 



vip and patting his horse on the neck, " how are 

 you, old fellow, after the roll we got together in 

 that confounded ditch?" 



The answer was returned by an expressive whin- 

 nying, and the application of his large lips to his 

 master's face, or the resting of his head on his 

 master's breast, to be fondled and caressed. In 

 those times the horse and his rider were one in 

 mutual attachment; they cared for each other; 

 each loved the other ; and when enjoying his sum- 

 mer run, with a nice cool shed to protect him from 

 the burning rays of the mid-day sun, these friendly 

 interchanges of familiarity still continued between 

 the horse and his owmer. 



Where are they to be seen now? The old 

 Squire has departed, and another Pharaoh, another 

 petty king, the child of fortune, usurps the throne, 

 who knows not Joseph and his brethren — who 

 knows not his poor dependents, the horse and the 

 dog, save by name, and who uses them as his 

 father did his machinery or his quill. It is to 

 such men as these that lessons in the art of horse- 

 management are necessary, although, in my opinion, 

 they will prove quite superfluous, since they have no 

 friendly feeling or kindly disposition towards their 

 horse ; and the supervision of the stable will still 

 be left to the head groom, as that of the kennel is 



