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lady driver, as by a butcher's or baker's boy, 

 entrusted with the conduct of that most 

 sensitive and obliging animal, the horse, 

 without a proper training in the art of 

 managing him. Why, in so humane a 

 country as this, persons should be allowed the 

 control of man's most faithful servant Avithout 

 a previous course of instruction has always 

 been beyond my comprehension. It might 

 well form a subject of Technical Instruction, 

 and I would commend it to the consideration 

 of our County Council Committees. To see 

 for instance, the average carter trying to 

 back by main force by means of a thin-worn 

 ring-snaffle in the unfortunate animal's 

 mouth, and the strength of his own brutal 

 arm, the entire weight of a bulky carthorse 

 and loaded waggon, because he does not 

 know that a horse cannot back as much as 

 he can pull, or that when his hind legs are 

 fully extended the poor creatiire can make 

 no further effort till he has been alloAved to 



