AMATEUE HOESE-TRAINING. 



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has been misunderstood, and bis feelings burt a great 

 many times a day. Human beings are tbe only tilings 

 be seems afraid of. As for bis awkward carriage, it is 

 no worse tban that of tbe farm band wbo bas made 

 sucb a failure of trying to use bim, and wbo is, never- 

 tbeless, wben be stands up straight, a well-made, good- 

 looking fellow. A little careful handling will make 

 that animal as different from bis present self as a dan- 

 dified English sergeant is from tbe raw recruit he once 

 was. What do you think of bis name ? It is Sambo." 



But my wife was not to be led off on any side ques- 

 tion, and after intimating that sucb a plebeian appella- 

 tion struck her as quite suitable, she continued ; "I^Tow 

 you know that Mr. " (the farmer of whom I pur- 

 chased) " knows a great deal more about horses than 

 you do; you must admit that, for be bas been buying 

 and selling and driving them all his life, and he doesn't 

 like bim, or be wouldn't sell so cheap ; and as for 

 training bim, for my part I don't believe horse-training 

 can be learned out of books, as a woman would learn a 

 receipt for making cake. Do get him to take the horse 

 back !" 



Now I have a great respect for my wife's opinion in 

 general, and in this particular case all her points seemed 

 well taken. 



The horse was tall, and I was short ; he was excitable, 

 and I hadn't the strength of a boy ; be was very awk- 

 ward, and I had never trained a horse in my life. 



