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quietly while being shod in the school, and I showed on him 

 Hamilton's plan of making a horse lie down. I have since 

 'heard that this gelding gave no further trouble in having 



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his feet handled, picked up and cleaned. I took in hand a 

 vicious bay mare which would not allow any of the soldiers to 

 touch her head, and made her, by the head and tail plan, 

 stand quietly to be handled, bridled, saddled and mounted. 



On the next day I gave a lesson in catching horses with 

 the halter and stick, taking the bay gelding of the first day to 

 practise on. I found he was quiet and that he had been 

 out to exercise. I gave the previous day's bay mare a lesson 

 with the long reins, and then had her ridden about the school 

 by a soldier in the ordinary manner. She let the man who 

 was riding her, dismount without exhibiting any unsteadiness ; 

 but the soldiers who were in charge of her, evidently wishing 

 to show me the superiority of their style of breaking, seized 

 her by the ears in order to keep her quiet while they were 

 taking off the saddle, which act of hostility she very rightly 

 resented by knocking them over, and escaping to her stable. 

 Thus, all the trouble which I had taken with her during two 

 days was undone in two seconds by these stupid people. 



I did no work on the 25th and 26th September; because 

 the former was a Sunday and the latter a fete day. On the 

 27th I took a quiet young remount and gave on him a 

 demonstration with the long reins to show how much better 

 one man can lunge a horse with them, than three men (two 

 to hold the horse and one to flourish the whip) in the ordinary 

 way with one rope. I also made this horse jump the bar 

 with the long reins. After that, the General gave me a dark 

 brown horse which belonged to the cadres, and which was 

 quiet to ride except when he was brought near the jumping 

 bar, and then he went mad, probably because his mouth had 

 been pulled about on previous occasions. After mouthing 

 him with the long reins and making him take the bar at a 



