Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-08
AN ENGLISH STABLE.
VARIOUS TYPES OF HORSES DE-
 SCRlBED BY AN OWNER.

Bred but Unsafe Horse-Handsome but
 Hardly Sound - Seventeen Years Old.
 The wife's Steed-The Hack.
 Well, here is a horse with plain head, rather a short neck, moderate shoulders, a good barrel, fair quarters and most excel lent feet and legs. Feel them and you will find them cool and even in temperature and the sinews hard and fine. He is q little want ing in quality, he is not fast-in fact, in q quick run, it is all you can do to keep in the immediate rear of the first flight with him. He is not exactly bad hunter, but he gives his rider the impression that he dislikes jumping, and he is little slovenly at his, fenccS. What, then, are his virtueSi He is She groom's favorite! He is never off his feed, and he thoroughly masticates his corn. He Is n remarkably sound horse. He never throws a shoe. He always comes out in his turn. Never has he been known to tear his clothing, to kick when being dressed, to eat his straw, or to commit any other stable offense He is easy to box at a railway sta ton; a child might ride him without saddle at exercise; when being clipped or singed you might take him for statue, so still does he stand; and he seems positively to enjoy physic Accordingly, whenever his master talks of selling him, the stud groom protests that it would be a thousand pitieS," that take i'm all and all. he's the best loss we've got"
 We next come to a great, slashing well bred horse, with plenty of power Take care! Don't go up to him. He sometimes ''lets out" This is the best hunter in the stable, and he is as sound as n bell. He is very fast, and grand fencer; ditches on the near side, ditches on the far side, banks, timber, water, all are the same to him. He will fight for his head a good deal when hounds first go away; he pulls, and he does not like to be baked at his fences. He does not exactly rush at them, but he is very hot and impotuouS. This being the case, he is far from pleasant horse in a crampcd country on a bad sCcnting day. About twice or thrice ill season he strikes out at other horses (and "when he do kick, he do kick like blazes," as tho cabman says ill Leech'S caricaturel, so 1t is not safe to take him into a crowd. He is difficult horse to box, too; so it is inconvenient to take him by train. Between one thing and another, there is only about ono meet ill ten days at which his present master ride him with comfort.
 NOT A SOUND ANIMAL.
 ''Strip that 'oSs," says that official to a helper, as we move on to the next box This is the best looking horse in the stable. In fact, he is remarkably handsome specimen of a hunter; hence the grooms anxiety to show him off It would be hard to find a fault with him. He cost something fabulous Indeed, he is so valuable that his master is afraid of riding him. This fear is increased by sundry alarming symptoms that have manifested themselves from time to time. After one days hunting his near fore leg filled in suspicious manner; after another he was lame without any apparent cause; and ill a certain run his owner half suspected that his wind was not so good as it might be. He has had several bad colds, and occasion ally he has cornS. He comes out pretty often, at near meets; but his master never seems to ride hard on him, and he is always sent home early.
 In the next box is a confidential looking uuadruped. The holes above his eyes, his long teeth, his sunken back and tho manner in which he stands over betOken age. He is r years old; nevertheless he goes on, some times lame, sometimes sound. He is so clever and such an old favorite that his master can not mako up his mind to supplant him with younger and more serviceable horse. Excel lent fcncer as he is, he will not, and never l would faco water. His master has to be l careful too, neither to let him jump down | drop into hard road nor to send him to l distant meet, nor to make long day with him. Like most very old horses, he has lost his speed; and he has become dangerously | clever at his fences, saving himself by creep l ing, jumping on and off, or scrambling in | and out, where one would expect him to fly. He will probably end his career by giving l bis devoted owner q very bad fall.
 ''MY WEES HORSE"
 This our friend shows to us as ''my wife's horse" Hei model of what lady's horse | ought to be ill make and shape, breeding | temper and manners. Lucky the woman | who possesses such hunter! Between en- l tertaining guests, visits, colds and additions | to the family, my lady gives her horse q | rather easy time of it. Moreover, on the l strength of her husbands having got on her | favorite for an hour on two occasions, the l wife has been heard coolly to assert that she | had not been hunting at all that season, be- cause she gave up her horse to her husband l whereas she had in reality been prevented from hunting by very different reasons. It l is scarcely to be wondered at that the hus- band refraned from riding the cherished Quadruped for the future, and when his wife | suddenly took it into her head to go out hunting at short notice, the creature was so playful that madame was almost, if not quite, unseated. Confidential friends then expostulated with her husband for ''putting a lady brute like that" affirming that
 ''he was not at all the sort of horse for a wo- man to ride" etc., etc.
 Last of all we come to the hack, and q very |
 fifteen hands and one inch in height, he
 has great strength, bone enough to carry a
 man heavier than his master, fine sloping
 shoulders and very muscular Joins, quarters
 and thighs He is as clever as cat, and If
 the fences look very big from his back, he
 gets over them better than do many horses a
 hand higher. His master is seldom in a
 hurry to exchange him for his hunter; he
 often hunts him on a by-day, and in the
 course of the season he sees a good many
 runs on him. This little horse Is expected to
 give days hunting to friend of his mas
 ter's, whether male or female whenever re-
 quired, in addition to his hacking work; and,
 because he is only hack and not a hunter,
 nothing is thought of hunting him two or
 three times week. He does far more work
 than any other horse in the stable; he is
 never sick, sorry or lame; he is quite fit and
 out cub hunting when the rest of the stud
 are only doing walking exercise and he car ries his master in Rotten Row when they arc
 being summered. Saturday Review. The Age of Locomotives.