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Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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so and ^vithout a heavy load, had bettertravel over a good, smooth ten-mile road in an hour and a halfand receive good treatment at the end, than to spend two anda half hours on the road and receive no care at the end of theroute. Besides, the older I grow I more and more see the import-ance of making each hour count to the best possible advantage; for, as Longfellow has it: Art is long and Time is fleeting; And our hearts, though stout and brave,Still, like mutHed drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the grave. Always, w^hen driving on the road, have the reins well inhand, always being in touch with the horse through hismouth. Then, if through any cause your horse makes a mis-step, or shies, or stumbles, you have him under your control atonce — as you otherwise could not do. I have driven horses full of life and spirit, whose action andspeed I could govern by the mouth alone, without a word orsingle act on my part except just slight variations in the pullor non-pull of the lines. r
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