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Excerpt from Winter Sketches: From the Saddle The late Rev. Dr. Cutler of Brooklyn, when a feeble young man recovered his health by riding from Portland to Savannah. His valu able life was prolonged to old age by this almost daily exercise. When one of his parishioners asked him how he could afford to keep a horse, his reply was My dear sir, I cannot afford not to keep one. If your business confines you to the city, give the night two hours that you now steal from it, and take for the day two hours that you give for sleep. Take this clear gain of time for horseback exercise in the park. But if you are a man of leisure, ride through the country for days and weeks on long jour neys, where constantly recurring changes di vert the mind that stagnates in daily routine. Procure' - I mean buy, own, an animal that is exclusively a saddle horse. A horse is like a servant in one especial respect, servant of all work is perfect in nothing. She is a poor cook, a poor parlor-girl and a poor chamber maid. A horse that goes double and single in harness and is likewise used under the saddle, walks, trots and lopes indifferently. A good driving and riding horse is a rare combination, and a horse generally used in harness is never capable of any prolonged journey under the saddle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.