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dismount and pull the I Torse backward, or instantly to knock him down ; 

 measures, if at all eligible, in the power of very few people to put in 

 force. I had a four-year-old filly, by Young Traveller, which I bred ; 

 she Avas late, and very ill broke, and took the fancy to run back, when- 

 ever she saw a Horse on the road, rearing up perpendicularly, a great 

 number of times together. I rode her regularly every morning, and in 

 about a fortnight, had nearly cured her by mere dint of hard wliipping 

 and spurring, every time she reared, whipping her chiefly upon the 

 head and face. To deter Horses from lying down in the Avater, a 

 most nonsensical practice has been recommended by some foreign 

 breaker — to drop balls fastened to strings, one into each ear; again, to 

 break a flask of water over the head, that the water may run into the 

 ears. The most effectual method, I believe, is, to pull strongly at the 

 right-hand rein, at the same time, whipping or striking the Horse hard 

 upon the nose and mouth, or upon the ears, vmfair correction, sanc- 

 tioned only by such occasions. 



Of the RUNAWAY HORSE, I have this observation to make — let no man 

 ride him ; let him work in a mill, where he may find boundless scope. 

 I write this with a syni pathetic feeling of pain in my left shoulder and 

 elbow joints, on which I grounded, from the back of a complete runaway, 

 thirty years since, and in those parts I have a (ew momentary twinges, 

 every time the wind takes an unfavourable direction. It is recom- 

 mended to pull a Horse high, that breaks away, alternately pulling and 

 loosening his reins, and sawing the mouth with the bit. Horses cer- 

 tainly may be so stopped ; but a determined runaway, with a hard 

 mouth and strong neck, would laugh to scorn all such attempts, from 

 the most powerful horseman. Others will only be flurried, and ren. 

 dered mad by such treatment. In the mean time, I have seen gal- 

 loppers, which would infallibly have broken away under rough treat- 

 ment, held steadily and securely, by lads of seven stone, who sat quietly 

 and with patience, and pulled low. 



I shall conclude this branch with a few selections from the late Lord 

 Pembroke's method of breaking Horses, which concise treatise, might 

 indeed, with much proj)riety, be styled. The Common Sense of Horse- 

 manship, for the head of the noble Earl seems to have been so reple- 

 nished 



