"Centaur," or the Turn Out

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Excerpt from "Centaur, " or the Turn Out: A Practical Treatise on the (Humane) Management of Horses, Either in Harness, Saddle, or Stable, With Hints Respecting the Harness-Room, Coach-House, &C, Centaur.communication, lest it should be intercepted, forwarded to Bruce a pair of spurs and a purse of gold. Bruce knew that the spurs meant ¿ight, and the purse, means for his journey but the ground was covered with snow, and if he were to ¿y, the conspirators could easily trace him. He however got the blacksmith to invert his horse's shoes, so that by the prints of the horse's feet upon the snow, it appeared Bruce had returned to his castle instead of having just left it. The ruse succeeded admirably, and Bruce escaped to Dumfries - a town about 8 miles from his castle - where he met the chief conspirator and slew him. At the Battle of Bannockburn, Bruce's horse rendered him valuable service in several of the hand-to hand encounters in which he was on that day engaged. Many instances are on record of monarchs and others being saved through the swiftness, courage, or ingenuity of the horse. Thus we are told, Ist Book of Kings, 20th chapter, and 20th verse - That every one slew his man, and the Syrians ¿ed, and Israel pursued them, and Ben-hadad, the King of Syria, escaped on an horse. The horse has, from the time of the Egyptians to the present day, been intimately associated with man in all his undertakings, a work, therefore which will treat of The Horse and its immediate surroundings cannot fail to be both interesting and useful, and such the author trusts his work will prove. 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.