UO BREAKING. 



pers and pliable disposicions may be brought 

 to every state of perfection by gentle usage 

 corresponding with their own fraqieof mind ; 

 while^ on the contrary, the ferocity of the 

 highest-spirited may be gradually subdued 

 by exertions oi steady authority ^iud persevering 

 fortitude^ blended with intervening acts of 

 .kindness and occasional encouragement, 

 without descendino' to the most unjustifiable 

 ill usage, tei^ding only to excite invincibly 

 prejudice and perpetual opposition. 



The proofs upon which such opi'iion is iur 

 controvertibly founded, constitute an expe- 

 rience of twenty years, in which time I have 

 attentively analyzed t!ie tempers of horses^ 

 and the piactical principles of their breakers, 

 with as much fervency as the professional 

 abilities and . niedical knowledge of Counfry 

 Farriers, so fully and repeatedly explained im 

 different parts of the former Volume, There 

 is a certain analogy in the practice of both : 

 ^nd kill or care may be adopted by each for 

 his motto, without injury to either; and v^•it^l 

 much greater propriety than one of the same 

 learned fraternity define<l his employer's horse 

 tohi:.'' semper eadenr,'' Worse and worse: O}' 



