234 HAxNDLING AND BREAKING. 



pened in this wise. A farmer friend was 

 in the habit of kindly lending me a horse 

 if I was short of one, or had extra work. 

 One day meeting his groom I said to him : 

 "Ask your master if he can let me haA^e 

 a horse to drive to-morrow." Next day the 

 horse, a big weight-carrying animal Avhich 

 I had never seen before, came over, was 

 duly put to in the dogcart (which was a 

 trifle small for him), and I drove two lady 

 visitors to a garden party. The horse was 

 perfectly quiet, but seemed to go a bit 

 "green," particularly down hill, so I thought 

 perhaps he might not have been in for 

 some little time. What was my surprise 

 when I met my friend a day or two later 

 to hear him say : " Much obliged to you 

 for breaking my horse to harness the other 

 day ; he had never been hi before ! " The 

 man had told him I wanted one to ride. 

 I quoted the title of one of Shakespeare's 

 best-known plays ; but it Avas a thing I 



