_Docking Horses' Tails._--I should be glad to learn when the practice of
docking horses' tails commenced in England, or in any country of Europe,
and what was the immediate cause of this amputation? I cannot trace in the
plates of Froissart, or others of a later date, any indication of this
practice, and in them there are no tails lopped of their fair proportions.
What other nations besides the English have ever docked their horses'
tails; and where is any account to be found of their reasons for so doing?
If any of your correspondents will answer these Queries, I shall feel
obliged.