140 BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. 



Having been personally somewhat celebrated (or 

 known, would be a more proper term) as an owner 

 of fast horses in their various ways, the reader need 

 anticipate no censure from me as regards any reason- 

 able fast pace, under proper circumstances, and in 

 proper situations. I will first allude to weight. If a 

 man in a very light and well -constructed gig, with a 

 very fast horse, in high condition, has occasion to go 

 thirteen miles, or a trifle more, and is pressed for 

 time, such a horse, under such advantages and a fine 

 and moderately level road, will perform that distance 

 in the hour without any severe distress ; but if 

 another person in an ordinary phaeton and four pas- 

 sengers attempted the same thing, he would, in nine- 

 teen cases in twenty, fail in doing it, and in each case 

 would be guilty of great cruelty, and produce great 

 distress and suff'ering to his horse. 



If a man has a horse whose action and animal 

 powers make ten miles an hour the top of his trot- 

 ting speed, he will distress him severely by keeping 

 him up to that, though the pace is not in itself an 

 unreasonable one. Distress to the horse must not be 



