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the door, the horse appeared lying down, and the man by his side, playing with 

 him like a child with a puppy dog. From that time he was found perfectly 

 willing to submit to any discipline however repugnant to his nature before." 

 " I once," continues Mr. Croker, " saw his skill tried on a horse, which could 

 never before be brought to stand for a smith to shoe him. The day after Sul- 

 livan's half hour's lecture, I went, not without some incredulity, to the smith's 

 shop, with many other curious spectators, where we were eye-witnesses of the 

 complete success of his art. This, too, had been a troop horse, and it was sup- 

 posed, not without reason, that after regimental discipline had failed, no other 

 would be found availing. I observed that the animal appeared terrified when- 

 ever Sullivan either spoke to or looked at him ; how that extraordinary ascend- 

 ancy could have been obtained, is difficult to conjecture. 



u In common cases this mysterious preparation was unnecessary. He seemed 

 to possess an instinctive power of inspiring awe, the result, perhaps, of natural 

 intrepidity, in which, 1 believe, a great part of his art consisted ; though the 

 circumstance of the tete-a-tete shows that, on particular occasions, something 

 more must have been added to it. A faculty like this would, in some hands, 

 have made a fortune, and I understand that great offers were made to him, for 

 the exercise of his art abroad. But hunting was his passion. He lived at 

 home in the style most agreeable to his disposition, and nothing could induce 

 him to quit Duhallow and the fox-hounds." 



Mr. Castley witnessed the total failure of the younger Sullivan. He says, 

 " we have in the regiment a remarkably nice horse, called Lancer, that has 

 always been very difficult to shoe, but seven or eight years ago, when we first 

 got him, he was downright vicious in that respect. When the regiment was 

 stationed at Cork, the farrier-major sought out the present Sullivan, the son of 

 the celebrated Whisperer, and brought him up to the barracks in order to try 

 his hand upon Lancer, and make him more peaceable to shoe ; but I must say 

 this person did not appear to possess any particular controlling power over the 

 animal more than any other man. Lancer seemed to pay no attention whatever 

 to his charm, and at last fairly beat him out of the forge. Time, however, 

 and a long perseverance in kind and gentle treatment, have effected what force 

 could not. The horse is now pretty reasonable to shoe*." 



* An account, bearing considerable resem- horse's nose, he is able to hold it down, and 



blance to the feats of the English horse-tamer, prevent it from throwing itself over on its back, 



has been lately laid before the public. By this means he gradually advances, until he 



Mr. Catlin has published an account, is able to place his hand on the animal's nose 



the veracity of which is unimpeached, of his and over its eyes, and, at length, to breathe 



travels among the North American Indians, into its nostrils, when it soon becomes docile 



He thus describes the manner in which the and conquered ; so that he has little else to do 



Indian tames the wild horse. f( He coils his than to remove the hobbles from its feet, and 



lasso on his arm, and gallops fearlessly into lead or ride it to the camp. The animal is so 



the herd of wild horses. He soon gets it over completely conquered, that it submits quietly 



the neck of one of the number, when he in- ever after, and is led or rode awav with very 



stantly dismounts, leaving his own horse, and little difficulty." 



runs as fast as he can, letting the lasso pass Mr. Ellis, B.A., of Trinity College, Cam- 



out gradually and carefully through his hands, bridge, happened to read this account, and he 



until the horse falls for want of breath, and felt a natural desire to ascertain how far this 



lies helpless on the ground. The Indian ad- mode of HOHSE-TAMINO might be employed 



vances slowly towards the horse's head, keeping among British horses. He soon had the op- 



the lasso tight upon his neck, until he fastens portunity of putting the veracity of the story 



a pair of hobbles on the animal's two fore feet, to the test. His brother-in-law had a filly, 



and also loosens the lasso, giving the horse a not yet a year old, that had been removed 



chance to breathe, and passing a noose round from her dam three months before, and since 



the under jaw, by which he gets great power that time had not been taken out of the stable, 



over the affrighted animal, that is rearing and A great amateur in everything relating to 



plunging when it gets breath, and by which, horses was present, and at his request it WHS 



as he advances, hand over hand, towards the determined that the experiment of the cffi- 



