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TUA VELS IN AERICA."prejudices of the people; and the former must grant his special permissionin order for one to leave the country openIy.Every thing here in the mode of treating the horse is; decitiedly there\'erse of the. process of Europe. They hegin to ride them, wiseIy, s~late as at four years of age; and from tItat time every thing the animalexperiences in the hands of man,. is absolutelycontrary as much to nal'"tureas to what his own free will would decide or dictate.The farrier'sshop lies in a very small compass :-a leathern budget, like that of ourtinker,. contains an anvil, a pan for charc(})al,apuir ofpinceI:s, a.ham­111er, and one or two small instruments more.much, and square the toe~They pare the hee! tOGOn the journey the horse sets out in the morning unfeGl and unwatercd.Such is the effect of habitu.ation,. that,notwith~tanding theheat, if passing a river he bardly puts clown his bead in,cffort to drink~The borse carries," besides his rider with his arms and his spurs (nqtrifle), a clumsy saddle ofseveral stones weight, with a pairof c1umSc,}tstirrupB each weighing some pounds, a wallet offooclon each side fo~his rider and himself, and a powerful, though light, bridJe. A mid-daj'thaIt is made, as already mentioned; but thehorse gains no relief hereby,save from the weight upon his back: and relief it can scarceIy; becalled, considering the process. he is then subj~cted to in the piqueting"which i3 thus.The horseman has four small pegs like those of a tent,.to each of which is a rope, snare, al' noase, which,is put round the f~t~lock of the borse, and thus his fore and hind feet. contracted towardSieach other, as a greyhound stands, but the fore legs straddled apart like'a feeble-chested harge. In this ta him uunatural position. he 15 fixed t ,a butt to the attacks of sUI)-beams and flies.This being aIl duly managedto the horse's comfort, the ~foorhangs his armson tbe p0111:­mel of the saddle, which last is never taken off unti! the jpurneY't) end;~