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after the roll we got together in that confounded 

 ditch ? " 



The answer was returned by an expressive whinnying, 

 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 enjo5dng 

 his summer 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 owner. 



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 to the 

 huntsman. This miscalled system of horse-taming will 

 be imparted, therefore, to those who already practise 

 too many cruelties towards the poor horse. Grooms and 

 stable-boys will be experimenting on his devoted carcass, 

 adding this other to the many tricks already too pregnant 

 with punishment to this imfortunate animal, totally 

 unnecessary and uncalled for. 



I do not pretend to affirm that the system of breaking 

 young horses and subduing vicious ones, pursued by my 



