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MANAGÊMENT OF THE aORSR. 13and 'lets the'hridle, which is ingenious as weIl as powerful, consisting ofan iron ring, which aets in aid both of bit and curb-chain, with a lighthead-staIl, and single reins fastened to cheeks which have a very smal1pur~hase,faU out of his mouth and down upon his chest, the head-stanremaining upon his head.The bit thus disengaged can he replacedwi'thout disturbing the head-staIl; a great convenience in this way oflife.At night, however, the bridle is taken off usuatly a:ltogether, andhung, like the other thiogs, on the pommel, the whole presenting a;most readJ'and soldier-like arrange~ent.Thus are, however, 1eft at tne'noon-day and c,veninghalts, in the former case in the heat of the merid1anandsolstice, undcr a burning sun reflected from a parcBed:soil, ,three hundred high-spiritcd\staJlions, ,vho challenge and answer·each other, and deafenhuman cars with thei·r boastful neighings. Andif one do, as is momentarilythe case, get loose, a desperate 6ght (royalamu,sement here it is to be observed' by t'ile \Vay)' commences; s@ thatit may be judged what a riot must be kept up in consequence betweenharses and masters,and how litt1e this can cleserve to be entî,tled a pcriod()f rest.After a repose however-ot tnis d'escription, and subsequent day's.journey, on coming in at evening thehorses are given first as much"vater ~s they cboose to drink. They are then unbridled, and left ne...coutred as beforè described., when as much barley and broken straw Îs,laid before. them@n a skin or cloth as they can eat; and this carries;them through tbetweoty..fôur Hours.But as to the famons snaRe,hOIses of which we hear from dIe s()uth, the stories we are told of them,woul.d ioduce itto be thollght l'Hat they went through their lives and;laboul:S almost without the aid of any sustenance whatever.Habit,.although oot carrying its effects quites(). far as that, may weIl be called:a iecond nature. Thus it may be saicl that the-borse hem oever lies clown",