NOTE. 
©* the chapters in this book, the second, 
sixth, and last, dealing with “ Trotting 
Families,” “Saddle Horses,” and “The Care of 
Horses,” are now published for the first time. 
The remaining chapters originally appeared in 
the Atlantic Monthly, from which they are re- 
printed by the kind permission of the publishers 
of that magazine. The opportunity of republica- 
tion has been taken to revise and enlarge these 
chapters. 
Concorp, MASSACHUSETTS, 
October, 1892. 
