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driving horses. For extreme speed at 
long distances, at the present moment at 
least, the gasoline propelled machine is 
preferred. And so the numbers of the 
horses kept in the private stables are 
being reduced. But at the same time 
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the quality is being improved. A poor 
and common horse in his keep costs just 
as much as does a good one. The 
amount of pleasure is another thing en¬ 
tirely. 
A poor horse is always a source 
of dissatisfaction, often of mortification. 
A fine horse is a joy, an increasing joy 
as we learn by experience to appreciate 
his fine points and excellencies. When 
we reduce the numbers of horses in our 
stables we find the Morgan the most 
useful to keep as he can do more kinds of 
things than any other horse I have ever 
seen. He is excellent under the saddle, 
perfect in harness and very good indeed 
in the ordinary work of the farm whether 
hitched to a plow or a mowing machine. 
And he is almost untireable. Mr. Battell 
of Vermont, one of the largest land- 
owners in the State,uses no other kind of 
horses. That was generally the case in 
Vermont half a century ago. 
Here is another thing. The Morgan 
has character and intelligence. These 
are qualities that cannot be too highly 
esteemed. Those who know little of 
horses but admire and love them without 
intimately studying them are inclined 
to believe in a sentimental fashion that 
horses are very intelligent, almost intel¬ 
lectual. This is a sad mistake and 
“horse sense” when applied to a human 
always seemed to me to have a sar¬ 
castic significance. Considering his in¬ 
timate relations with man the horse has 
a low order of intelligence, not much 
more indeed than the cackling hen. He 
is controlled variously—by the fear of 
his master or by confidence in his master. 
He is a bully and a coward and when he 
goes wrong the horse controlled by fear 
has learned that his master is afraid, 
when controlled by confidence he has 
lost that confidence by the fault or in¬ 
eptness of the master. And the affection 
of the horse is not great. He likes the 
person who feeds him and he likes his 
home. 
The latter is proved by two things. 
I ake a horse away from his home 
and the surroundings to which he 
has been accustomed and he actually 
gets ill of nostalgia. This aggravates 
the process of acclimatization through 
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