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of Merchantsville, who used him for breeding purposes and for a fam- 

 ily driver. 



The man told me his wife could 

 hitch up the horse and drive him 

 as well as, any old family horse, 

 and he could take him out in the 

 street by the halter and play with 

 him with all the freedom he could 

 with any pet horse. " But," added 

 he, " were he to see a bald-headed 

 man it would make him so furious 

 he would kill him if he could get 

 at him." Mr. Arnd was bald-head- 

 ed, and the horse retained his pe- 

 culiar repugnance to such an ap- 

 pearance. I took him into the 

 streets by the halter, and found 

 he was just as obedient to the 

 whip as when I owned him, over fo\ir years before. 



Young horses of this character, no matter how apparently vi- 

 cious or unmanageable, were the best subjects to handle before. 



Fig. 291. — Godolphin Arabian. From 

 Stubb's Picture. By J. C. Beard. 



Pig. 393, 



-Godolphin Arabian, the Noted Sire of the English Thoroughbred. 

 From Stubb's Painting. 



classes, and I always preferred them when I could get them, as they 

 were so quick to "respond to treatment. Indeed; many of the most 

 noted cases referred to in my regular work were stallions. Therels a 



