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French camp, feeling rather proud of my conquest, 

 for he was once more rendered subservient to his 

 master, man. Subsequently, by dint of patience 

 and kind treatment, he forgot all his vice, and 

 became extremely docile and gentle, doing me 

 good service, and amply repaying the trouble I 

 had taken with him. 



I afterwards learnt that vice had been engendered 

 by the brutal treatment of the soldier who had 

 charge of him during a remarkably long passage in 

 a sailing ship from Algiers to Constantinople, as 

 before his embarkation, although of remarkably 

 high spirit, he had never given any indications of 

 being what he afterwards became, a desperately 

 bad character. It therefore shows how extremely 

 careful owners of horses should be not to allow 

 their grooms to "strike or use any unnecessary 

 cruelty to the animals under their charge ; for the 

 horse is naturally sagacious, and generally behaves 

 himself according to the treatment he receives : he 

 is very susceptible to kindness, and much more is 

 to be obtained from him by a little patience, gentle 

 treatment, and persuasion, than with coercion and 

 punishment. 



