A Xr.'.V WAY TO .fuDOE OE A lIop.SE. —lf the color be light sorrel, or chestnut, his feet, legs, and face white, these are m irks of kindness. If he is broad and full between the eyes, he may be depended on, as a horse of good sense, an > capable of being trained to anything. The more kind'y you treat snob horses the better y ui will he treated in return. Such horses, if well fed, will not stand the whip. If you want a safe horse, avoid one that his dish-faced ; he may be so fir as gentle as not to scare, but he will have too much go a-bead in him to be safe with every one. If you want a fool, hut a horse of great bottom, get a deep Bay with a white hair on him ; if his face is a litt'e dished so much the worse. Let no min ride such a horse who U not an adept iii riding ; they arc a'wivs tricky unsafe. If yon want ahorse that will never give out, don’t buy i large, over-grown one, A black horse can t stand be d, nor a white one cold. If you want a gentle horse, get one with more or less white a -out the head the more the better. Circus people always buy parti colored horses on account of great docility and i-entVno‘-o '
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Dunstan Times, Issue 907, 5 September 1879, Page 3
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