[Gutenberg 63098] • The Horse's Friend / The Only Practical Method of Educating the Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits · Followed by a Variety of Valuable Recipes, Instructions in Farriery, Horse-shoeing, the Latest Rules of Trotting, and the Record of Fast Horses Up to 1876

Excerpt from The Horse's Friend: The Only Practical Method of Educating the Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits

My father owned the farm on which we lived, besides being the proprietor of several mills, and like many other purely practical men. He had a higher appreciation of material than Of intel lectual advantages. AS a consequence, he was more desirous that I Should early engage in the active business of the farm, than that I should employ hours, which might be made profitable in work, in studies which paid no immediate profit.

At the age of eight years I was often sent after the cows, barefooted, and a distance of nearly a mile through the woods, coming home after the shades of night had fallen, and being obliged to trace my way by following the cows in the narrow path made by them. Day after day, in my great desire to secure an education, I would beg my father to send me to school, but always he had work for me to do, and thus my endeavors were foiled. But such was my deter mination to secure an education, that I resolved.

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