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the horse — that by conquering one member you 

 conquer to a great extent the whole horse. 



You have perhaps seen men operate upon this 

 principle by se\vin<{ a horse's ears together to pre- 

 vent him from kicking. I once saw a plan given 

 in a newspai)er to make a bad horse stand to be 

 shod, which was to fasten down one ear. There 

 were no reasons given why you should do so ; but 

 I tried it several times, and thought that it had a 

 good effect — though I would not recommend its 

 use, especially stitching his ears together. The only 

 benefit arising from this process is, that by dis- 

 arranging his ears we draw his attention to them, 

 and he is not so apt to resist the shoeing. By tying 

 up one foot we operate on the same principle to a 

 much better effect. When you first fasten uj) a 

 horse's foot he will sometimes get very mad, and 

 strike with his knee, and try every possible way to 

 get it down ; but he cannot do that, and will soon 

 give up. 



This will conquer him better than anything you 

 could do, and without any possible danger of hurt- 

 ing himself or you either, for you can tie up his 

 foot and sit down and look at him until he gives 

 up. When you find that he is conquered, go to 

 him, let down his foot, rub his leg with your hand, 

 caress him, and let him rest a little ; then put it 

 up again. Repeat this a few times, always putting 

 up the same foot, and he will soon learn to travel 

 on three legs so that you can drive him some dis- 

 tance. As soon as he gets a little used to this way 

 of travelling, put on your harness, and hitch him 

 to a sulky. If he is the worst kicking horse that 

 ever raised a foot you need not be fearful of his 

 doing any damage while he has one foot up, for he 

 cannot kick, neither can he run fast enough to do 

 any harm. And, if he is the wildest horse that 

 ever had harness on, and has run away every time 

 he has been hitched, you can now hitch him in a 

 sulky, and drive him as you please. And, if he 

 he wants to run, you can let him have the lines, 

 and the whij) too, with perfect safety, for he can go 

 but a slow gait on three legs, and will soon be 

 tired, and willing to stop ; only hold him enough 

 to guide him in the right direction, and he will 

 soon be tired and willing to stop at the word. Thus 

 you will effectually cure him at once of any further 

 notion of running off. Kicking horses have always 

 been the dread of everybody; you always hear men 

 say, when they speak about a bad horse, " I dont' 

 care what he does, so he don't kick." This new 

 method is an effectual cure for this worst of all 

 habits. There are plenty of ways by which you 

 can hitch a kicking horse, and force him to go, 

 though he kicks all the time ; but this doesn't have 

 any good effect towards breaking him, for we know 

 that horses kick because they are afraid of what is 

 behind them, and when they kick against it and it 

 hurts them they will only kick the harder; and 

 this will hurt them still more and make them re- 

 member the scrape much longer, and make it still 

 more difficult to persuade them to have any confi- 

 dence in anything dragging behind them ever after. 



But by this new method you can hitch them to a 

 rattling sulky, plough, waggon, or anything else in 

 its worst shape. They may be frightened at first, 

 but cannot kick or do anything to hurt themselves, 



and will soon find that you do not intend to hurt 

 them, and then they will not care anything more 

 about it. You can then let down the leg and drive 

 along gently without any further trouble. By this 

 new process a bad kicking horse can be learned to 

 go gently in harness in a few hours' time, 



(To be concluded in our next.) 



QUEEN MARY, 



THE D.\M OF BLINK BONNY AND HARICOT. 



Queen Mary, bred by Mr. Dennis in 1843, is by 

 Gladiator, her dam (foaled in 1840) by Plenipo- 

 tentiary, out of Myrrha by Whalebone. 



Gladiator (foaled in 1833) was by Partizan, out 

 of Pauline by Moses, He is well known as a stud 

 horse. 



Queen Mary's dam, bred by Mr, Watt, was also 

 the dam of Beverlac, Ruth, The Prior, Britannia, 

 Myrtle, and others. She died in 1854, 



Queen Mary is a bright-yellow bay mare, 

 standing about fifteen hands three inches high. 

 She has a very blood-like head, with a full, fiery 

 eye, and strong neck, adorned with but a rough, 

 scratchy mane. She has good shoulders, and that 

 peculiar prominence of the pectoral muscle so re- 

 markable in Blink Bonny. She has powerful 

 arms, short legs, and a roomy barrel ; is high or 

 the rump, drooping towards the tail, which, unlike 

 her famous daughter's, is full and long. Queen 

 Mary is but a queer-tempered mare, very wild in 

 the paddock, and blowing defiance to any stranger 

 who approaches her or hers. In our picture she 

 is standing guard over the latest hope of the 

 family, Miss Bab-at-the-Bowster. In the better 

 months of the year. Queen Mary shows a coat 

 shining like satin ; and she makes up, as we think 

 will be admitted, into a very pretty subject. 



Queen Mary was put to the stud in 1S4G, and 

 in 1847 threw her first foal Haricot, by Mango, or 

 Lanercost. Another filly, by Mango, in 1843, 

 died when a foal, and Mr. Ramsay during the fol- 

 lowing year. On his decease. Queen Mary, with 

 her third foal, Braxey by Moss Trooper, at her 

 foot, and in foal to Annandale with Balrownie, was 

 sold amongst the other horses, to Mr. Carnegie, 

 of Balnamon, for twenty pounds. Mr. I'Anson 

 subsequently reclaimed her with Balrownie, then a 

 foal, for a hundred guineas the two, and another 

 ten-pound note for Braxey. 



The following is the correct return of Queen 

 Mary's produce : — 



184/". Brown filly "Haricot," by Mango, or 

 Lanercost. 



1S4S. Filly by Mango (died a foal), 



1S49. Bay filly "Braxey," l)y Moss Trooper. 



Is50. Bay coll '' Balrownie," by Annandale, 



18:')!. liay colt (half-bred) by Ferneley, 



]S52. Bay filly " Blooming Heather," by Mel- 

 bourne. 



Is53. Bay colt " Bonnie Scotland," by lago. 



1854, Bay filly " Bhnk Bonny," by Melbourne. 



1855. iMissed to Touchstone. 



lS5(j. Brown colt " Balnamoon," by Annandale. 

 1857. Bay filly "Bab-at-the-Bowster," by An- 

 nandale, 



