text:  Their knowledge of horses which they get at second-hand from Field or some of the other _crack_ veterinaries is their only pride and indeed the only thing they imagine any man ought to be proud of; they reverence a fellow who has a good seat in his saddle and delight in horsemanship because horsemanship requires no brains; driving a "buggy" in good style is respectable but "shoving along" a four-in-hand the highest exercise of human intellect as for Milton and Shakspeare and such inky-fingered old prigs who never had a good horse in their lives they despise such low fellows thoroughly