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animals. General Gardenin before leaving for Moscow, told 

 me that one of them was so. dangerous, that he did not feel 

 justified in asking me to take the animal in hand ; a kindly 

 meant warning which I did not heed. 



Colonel Hubbenet gave me the photographs for Figs. 31, 

 32, 33, 34 and 35, which show an interesting series of tests 

 applied to a squad of horses in order to prove their steadiness. 



FIG. 31. A Squad of Reserve Cavalry. 



These animals were old horses that had been specially 

 selected for their sedateness. 



I may state in passing that I looked upon my part of the 

 breaking as complete when I succeeded in making the horse 

 carry a rider quietly, and obey the ordinary indications of the 

 reins. I always managed to make him do this without 

 allowing him to buck or to exhibit any other form of 



