126 BREAKING. 



By this invariable preservation of temper, 

 and perseverance of discipline, I never found 

 but little diiBculty in effecting my purpose^ 

 not only in reducing them to unconditional 

 submission, but in exciting so great an at- 

 tachment from them, that their obedience 

 and perfection in the field or upon the road, 

 rendered them objects of general request 

 among my friends, at any equitable price I 

 thought proper to fix them at. If I had, 

 hovv'ever, a single doubt remaining upon the 

 propriety of this mode of treatment, a recent 

 case has arisen to eradicate a thousand if they 

 had existed ; and left me in the most unsul- 

 lied possession of an opinion not to be relin- 

 quished upon the persuasion of any advocate 

 for the violent measures I have so justly re- 

 probated, and so earnestly despise. 



The instance so far exceeding all others I 

 liaveseen, is of a blood-horse now in my 

 possession, and universally known to be one 

 of the iieetest injive of the most fashionable 

 popular hunts in the kingdom; this horse, 

 when purchased, was perhaps the most restive, 

 suiicn, and rtfracfory ever brought into use; 

 his figure and qualifications wereneverthelesa 



