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tlie carriage horses ; and when there is no master the 

 selection is not unfrequently left entirely to them. 

 After about twelve months the bend, or the shaky, or 

 the round, or the holly-stick leg comes to view. 

 Coachee then won't allow that he could have chosen 

 rotten timbers ; nor will he allow, that if good, he 

 ever drove them into this state, so it is all put down 

 to the unaccountable, — a favorite expression with 

 those who won't take the trouble to open their eyes. 

 The truth is, the error is two-fold. The judgment was 

 at fault in choosing such legs ; and again in the in- 

 cessant trotting of them beyond what they have been 

 able to bear. Coachee has the whip in his hand, and 

 he is quite miserable unless he is incessantly ''just 

 touching them " to amuse himself, and that amuse- 

 ment upon inferior instruments is at a heavy expense 

 to the owner, that is, if he has any taste ; and if not, 

 and there is no dislike to driving such orthopedic look- 

 ing animals, why have laid out so much money in 

 purchasing what were thought good ? Why not 

 have taken a couple of cheap round-about wrinkled 

 legs from my hospital instead ? Or why not have 

 jobbed a couple of the regular stone pounders just 

 fresh from Jericho ? I have no pretension to driving 

 myself, but I drove two English blood horses about 

 Paris for a whole month without any whip, having sent 



