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and their general carriage would be such as to render 

 them all but worthless where appearance is a con- 

 sideration ; again, a few would lean so heavily upon 

 their collar as to make them work very unhandily ; 

 so in the management of horses, as well as men, 

 we must be guided by circumstances. This is, how- 

 ever, quite certain, no horse that will go at all 

 pleasantly, or as he ought to go, without a bearing 

 rein, should ever, in ordinary situations, be driven 

 with one. 



It would be by no means an unfair conclusion, that 

 the horse or any other animal would naturally carry 

 himself in such way as he found the most convenient 

 and agreeable to himself. We might, however, 

 be led into error by such premises, plausible as they 

 appear. That horse or man, left to their own impulse, 

 may carry themselves in the way that appears to them, 

 or really is, the most convenient to them at the time, 

 is, I dare say, the case, but it by no means follows it 

 is the bestormost advantageous mode for them to use; 

 it is the most so at the time, but it being so (if it is 

 not really the best), arises from their not knowing of 



