Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-03-18

difficult find than heavyweight hunter they
only bred by chance.
The vulgar idea dmnutivc cathorse SUCH
without action fat and absolutely hdeou
stany sold ignorant people with plenty money their pockets
double their worth because they fancy that thick legs peraps
carefully haved) and body imply strength
weghtcaryng cob try he walk down steep hill
with weight on his back and loose rein.
"The other, the ordinary cob which may be worth anything
between and if sound has substance carry
teen stone move at fair pace with not snowy action and
nine times will go we'll in harness is consequence
and gh that cobs the generally
distinguished from light blood hacks their weight enables them
pull loaded carriage Those riders who asdous will not
they know it, buy cob that has been collar but such
bred by chance and work
way by degrees into good society," after graduating in country
bakers butchers the odds in their being
accustomed the collar if they do bear its bemsh
ing mark.
The areadyquotcd statistics Agricultural shows
prove that harness is the badge of all their tribe.
In 1872 cob hands inches high five years old, rather
plain than otherwise which capng prize purchased by
heavyweight 6nancier at eighty guncas for constitutional
park hack he dshgurcd by collar bemh sold a
year later a profit
This sort of cob decidedly comes within the list of useful
family He may carry any the family including girls
except the small hortcggcd boys he may single harness.
cobs will afford riding and driving than any other class
animal He may be used by the the his size
his strength his constitution make him fit for anything anybody
Placid say stold and in the stubborn
temperament frequently found amongst wcghcaing
cobs than amongst lightweight blood hacks
"A hunter hack and many kinds OF harness
may be able walk we'll but cob that walk good
pace and good worth feeding with To describe
what cob ought be would only confuse the readers who
know-a live original the best guide, and the
thing good picture.
Nothing is difficult get together than number Of
wcshaped wcghtcarng the pleasant
which the combined result of large OF blood and fine
symmetry.
COUNTRY HACK, ROADSTER.
With the improvement posting stage began the
o We
the roads very bad and that travelling wheels very
expensive when the feeble defomcd poet Alexander Pope
Oxford through Windsor Forest horse
Burlington his bookseller
also riding horse borrowed his publisher what
Odmixon for a debt
"Those roadster hacks had qualifications rarely
required these days Macadam and roads But
qualities latent and exist they found in horses British
breed Australian colonies, proved overland
catcdrvng expedition which the wonderful tales of the cndur
of Arab horses have been at least rivalled
They seldom much hands high tall horse
often enduring in long days, hardy every
Boswell writing I776 his friend Temple journey
Glasgow, says, shall chasc all the wayhanks the who
invented that comfortable method ourncyng Had
for that dare both you and would have cicumscrbcd
travels within very miles For my part, think
myself grcacoat and boots and get asde horses back and
be oted through mirc perhaps through wind and rain punish
mcnt too for all the offences charge myself with
This praise the post-chac Johnson
the demgod of Bozz idoay considered riding poshaise
with pretty the greatest life Yet
ponderous Doctor like any literary man.
modern, provided himself with pair silver spurs and
rode poshorseshe only mode conveyance during his journey
through Scotland and the Hebridc
After half century stage coaches had tempted travel
cs wheels railroads. and destroyed the roadside
where the homan used find welcome after long hard
day On the great north road where twenty years ago the crack
the Positions whip and the blast of the guards horn the rafting
hoof the ngng poc-cans rcsoundcd night day
make of dry bed decent meal feed OF
AS for osers, the extinct; you choose ride
drive must bring your groom your horse yourself
"Ihis decay OF inns renders impossible ea performed by