OF BREAKING HORSES. 285 



too, had been a troop-horse ; and it was supposed, 

 not without reason, that, after regimental discipUne 

 had failed, no other would be found availing. I ob- 

 sei-ved that the animal seemed afraid whenever Sulli- 

 van either spoke or looked at him : how that extm- 

 ordinary ascendency could have been obtained, it is 

 difficult to conjecture. In common cases, this myste- 

 rious preparation was unnecessary. He seemed to 

 possess an instinctive power of inspiring awe, the re- 

 sult, perhaps, of a natural intrepidity, in which, I 

 believe, a great part of his art consisted ; though the 

 circumstance of the tele a tete shows that, upon par- 

 ticular occasions, something more must have been 

 added to it. A faculty like this would, in other hands^ 

 have made a fortune, and great offers have been made 

 to him for the exercise of his art abroad ; but hunt- 

 ing, and attachment to his native soil, were his ruling 

 passions. He lived at home, in the style most agree- 

 able to his disposition, and nothing could induce him 

 to quit Duhallow and the fox-hounds." * 



When Mr. Craven had come to the termination of 

 his story, my father, who is rather incredulous, cried 

 out : " Well, Craven, there are many unaccountable 



* Rev. Horatio Townsend'a Survey of the County of Cork. 

 This gentleman remarks, that though the above facts appear 

 almost incredible, they are nevertheless indubitably true, and he 

 was an eye-witness of their truth. P. 438. 



