Yes; the horses that draw carts, drays, coal-waggons, stage waggons, and other heavy things, are stouter and much larger, and stronger than those that carry on the saddle, and are called draught horses.

Where do the best saddle-horses come from?

With saddle on his back they sit, And manage him with reins and bit, The whip and spur they use also, When they would have him faster go. And be the weather cold or hot, As they may wish he'll walk or trot; Or if to make more haste they need, Will gallop with the greatest speed.

" He swung again into the saddle and trotted whistling down the slope toward the creek which Logan had pointed out.

The most durable cattle-pony would have staggered under the bulk of that rider, and therefore he rode a great, patient-eyed bay, with shoulders worthy of shoving against a work-collar; but the neck tapered down small behind a short head, and the legs, for all their breadth at shoulder and hip, slipped away to small hoofs, and ankles which sloped sharply to the rear, the sure sign of the fine saddle-horse.

He swung from the saddle with an ease surprising in a man of such age and bulk and tossed the reins over the head of the horse.

After that Nash dodged the flying heels, chose his time, and vaulted into the saddle.

He jest starts in and figgers out a situation and then he gets busy slidin' the gent that's on him off'n the saddle.

"Down goes the tenderfoot and takes his saddle and flops it on the piebald pinto, and the piebald was jest as nice as milk.

Which maybe you sort of gather that he had to keep on performin', because the tenderfoot was still in the saddle.

No, sir, he never touched the buckin' strap, but jest sat there with his teeth set and his lips twistin' backthe same smile he had when he got into the saddle.

He swung from the saddle, tossed the reins over the head of the mustang, made a stride forwardand then checked himself with a soft curse and reached for his gun.

A single leap carried him into his saddle and he was off over the sand with a sharp rattle of the beating hoofs.

If the horse is a screw, cover him thick with saddle-cloths, girths, cruppers, breast-bands, and as much brass and tinsel as your pay will enable you to buy; but if not a screw, let his fair proportions be seen as much as may be, and don't bother a lover of good horseflesh to eliminate so much uniform before he can see what is beneath.

I was sawing wood one morning in the saddle house, and Umslumpogaas and his wives were sitting round about the door, dusting themselves.

On a sudden, at another opening of the wood, we heard the noise of a gun, and looking that way, out rushed a horse, with a saddle and a bridle on him, flying like the wind, and sixteen or seventeen wolves after him, full speed; indeed the horse had the heels of them, but as we supposed that he could not hold it at that rate, we doubted not

"I see by your looks you don't care to call, but I shall," said Maggie; and, bounding from her saddle, she ran up to Hagar, pressing her hand and whispering that it would soon be time to hear from Henry.

There, there; don't set me down so hard!" and the saucy eyes looked mischievously at the proud Englishman, who, truth to say, did place her in the saddle with a little more force than was at all necessary.

" Maggie knew she did not deserve this, and blushing like a guilty child she offered no resistance when he lifted her into the saddle gentlytenderlyas if she had indeed escaped from some great danger.

"It is time you were home," said he, and throwing the bridle across his arm he rested his hand upon the saddle and walked slowly by her side.

Our business has been to study him in the saddle, wielding lasso and sword and lance; nor have we left ourselves room for adequate allusion to his subsequent life as President and private citizen, deliverer of his country, and exile in these Northern States.

He can only take his foot from the saddle of one thought and put it on that of another.

What is the saddle of a thought?

George, too, must have been penetrated with the same sentiment, for he rode up close to the cart and grasping the mud guard, turned on his saddle and wistfully shaking his bead, gave vent to his feelings by the following very inelegant but extremely expressive ejaculation: "Quels cochons!

" And in two shakes bridle and saddle were off, and Gray Leg was rolling in the corral.