Horses
Were the equine race extinct, nevertheless an anatomist, by studying its bones, might affirm its instincts and assert its uses. Every part declares it to be a creature of speed; while its large cranium and beautifully-arranged teeth would announce it to have once been connecte...
Were the equine race extinct, nevertheless an anatomist, by studying its bones, might affirm its instincts and assert its uses. Every part declares it to be a creature of speed;...
10. CHAPTER II.Let the reader ask any gentleman of his acquaintance, “Whether man is not morally answerable for the welfare of those animals which are gathered beneath his roof?” The individua...
11. CHAPTER III.=Shoeing= a horse is understood to signify fastening a piece of iron to the horn which envelops the foot of the animal. Such an operation, at first glance, appears to be so simp...
12. CHAPTER IV.“No legs, no horse,” is, with a particular class, a very familiar phrase. This assertion, becoming a maxim, has apparently directed attention in a special manner to the lower ex...
13. CHAPTER V.The folly of perversity or the madness of abuse can imagine no possible wrong that the human race have not inflicted upon the creature to which civilization owes its heaviest ob...
14. CHAPTER VI.Those gentlemen who have deeply studied such subjects, assert that man is incapable of originating a single idea. Certainly an intelligent being would not have been required to...
15. CHAPTER VII.No gentleman regards his country-seat as finished until to it ample stabling is appended. The mansion is the first thing looked to. All its rooms must be noble; all its offices...
16. CHAPTER VIII.The word “vice,” when applied to the horse, represents any quality which may annoy the prejudices of the groom, or may prove displeasing to the expectations of the master. It is...
17. CHAPTER IX.When considering this subject, the writer is freed from all restraints. He has to describe things which exist only in his own imagination; not to depict any object which has bee...
18. CHAPTER X.Grooms, if generally the most loose of servants, are, by the middle classes, morally subjected to the worst treatment of all the domestics. In the larger number of the purely “_...
19. CHAPTER XI.“All horse dealers are rogues!” Such is a common belief, which too many persons are willing to indorse. The term “horse dealer,” however, embraces individuals of very adverse an...
20. CHAPTER XII.A gentleman, when designing to purchase a horse, should think about the matter, and should determine, in his own mind, the kind of animal he desires to obtain. The want of such...
21. CHAPTER XIII.There are very dissimilar kinds of horses produced in this country, the breeding of which concerns many different classes of proprietors, and all of which are ushered into this...
22. CHAPTER XIV.However much the English nation may have advanced in civilization, as regards the horse, its habits, its subjugation, and its training, two centuries would appear to have introd...
23. CHAPTER XV.The following particulars are derived from the highly respectable establishment of Edwin Kesterton, (late Horn,) a well-known firm which transacts business at No. 93 Long Acre....
24. CHAPTER XVI.The ensuing particulars were communicated by Mr. Thomas Sainsbury, Junr., the skillful foreman to a well-known and old-established firm--Messrs. Gibson & Co., of Coventry Street...