Father said that might be very true, and yet his horses had been broken in with blinders, and didn't I think they would be inclined to shy if he took them off; and wouldn't they be frightened to look around and see the wagon wheels so near.

I told him that for every accident that happened to a horse without blinders, several happened to a horse with them; and then I gave him Mr.Wood's opinion Mr.Wood out at Dingley Farm.

He says that the worst thing against blinders is that a frightened horse never knows when he has passed the thing that scared him.

He always thinks it is behind him.

The blinders are there and he can't see that he has passed it, and he can't turn his head to have a good look at it.