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him forget his vice ; and so it is in riding. You may conquer a restifT 

 horse; you may make liim ride quiet for months; nay, ahnost for years 

 together, but I affirm that, under other circumstances, and at some future 

 opportunity, he will be sure to return to his old tricks again." 



Mr. Castley gives two singular and conclusive instances of the truth of 

 this doctrine. "When a very young man," says he, "I remember pur- 

 chasing a horse at a fair in the north of England, that was offered very 

 cheap on account of his being unmanageable. It was said that nobody 

 could ride him. We found that the animal objected to have any thing 

 placed upon his back, and that, when made to move forward with nothing 

 more than a saddle on, he instantly threw himself down on his side with 

 great violence, and would then endeavour to roll upon his back. 



"There was at that time in Yorkshire a famous colt-breaker, known by 

 the name of Jumper,* who was almost as celebrated in that country for 

 taming vicious horses into submission, as the famed Whisperer was in 

 Ireland. We put this animal into Jumper's hands, who took him away, 

 and in about ten days brought him home again, certainly not looking 

 worse in condition, but perfectly subdued, and almost as obedient as a dog: 

 for he would lie down at this man's bidding, and only rise again at his 

 command, and carry double or any thing. I took to riding him myself, 

 and may say, that 1 was never better carried for six or eiglit months, 

 during which time he never showed the least vice whatever. I then sold 

 him to a Lincolnshire farmer, who said that he would give him a sum- 

 mer's run at grass, , and show him a very fine horse at the great Horn- 

 castle fair. 



"I'lappening to meet this gentleman the following yeai*, I naturally 

 enough inquired after my old friend. 'Oh,' said he, 'that was a bad 

 business : the horse turned out a sad rebel. The first time we attempted 

 to mount him, after getting him up from grass, he in an instant threw the 

 man down with the greatest violence, phching him several yards over his 

 head ; and after that he threw every one that attempted to get on his back. 

 If he could not throw his rider, he would throw himself doion. We could 

 do nothing with him, and I was obliged at last to sell him to go in a stage- 

 coach."' 



In the next story. Jumper's counterpart and superior, the Irish Whis- 

 perer, is brought on the stage, and, although he performs wonders, he 

 cannot radically cure a restiff horse. "At the Spring Meeting of 1804, 

 Mr. Whalley's King Pippin was brought on the Curragh of Kildare to 



* Those of our readers who were connected with the contested elections for York- 

 shire, will recollect Jumper, covered with orange plush from top to toe, and scam- 

 pering' in every direction over the country. Sometimes he would exchange this for 

 a bear-skin, enveloped in which, and mounted occasionally on a buffalo, he was a most 

 formidable object. He had extraordinary power over animals of various species, for he 

 tamed to the saddle a buffalo for Mr. Tempest, and a pair of rein-deer for harness for 

 Lord Pitzwilliam. But his charm consisted chiefly in fearlessness, and brute force, 

 accompanied by considerable tact. He would generally try rough measures first; and 

 in his perilous encounters with some of his troublesome scholars, had nearly every bone 

 in his body fractured. Sullivan's method was altogether different ; force was rarely re- 

 Borted to. The enemy surrendered to him at discretion, and without a struggle. Jumper, 

 however, seemed to have some charm about him ; for when he had, by dint of punishment, 

 striven in vain to conquer an unruly horse in the market-place of WaKefield, he alighted ; 

 Btood on the n^ar side of the horse; brought the animal's nead almost back to his off 

 shoulder by forcibly pulling at the off rein, and then sternly gazed at him over the withers 

 for two or three minutes. The animal then began to tremble, and broke out into a profusa 

 perspiration. Jumper then loosened his hold of the rein, and patted and caressed J»t 

 horse, who immediately followed him round the market-place, perfectly tamed. 



