Under kind treatment, daily petting, and generous feeding, "Dolly" is too frisky and headstrong for a lady to drive.
"Sell that treacherous beast at once or you will be killed," writes an anxious friend who had a slight acquaintance with her moods.
I want now to find an equine reliance whose motto is "Nulla vestigia retrorsum," or "No steps backward." I have pasted Mr.Hale's famous motto, "Look forward and not back," over her stall--but with no effect.

The "Lend a Hand" applies to those we yell for when the backing is going on.
By the way, a witty woman said the other day that men always had the advantage.

A woman looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt; Bellamy looked back and made sixty thousand dollars.
Mr.Robert B.Roosevelt, in his amusing book "Five Acres too Much" gives even a more tragic picture, saying: "My experience of horseflesh has been various and instructive.

I have been thrown over their heads and slid over their tails; have been dragged by saddle, stirrups, and tossed out of wagons.

I have had them to back and to kick, to run and to bolt, to stand on their hind feet and kick with their front, and then reciprocate by standing on their front and kicking with their hind feet....