INTRODUCTION. 



mous terms ; without them the pupil can neither be taught 

 himself nor impart instruction to his horse. Temper im- 

 plies the exercise of discretion and judgment. Though we 

 are opposed, as a rule, to the force cofitre force system, there 

 are occasions when firmness, in combination with courage 

 and patience, can alone establish the mastery of man, and 

 these must be brought into play in the case of vicious, stub- 

 born animals. 



As an example of temper in combination with Job-like 

 patience and firmness, and an illustration of the saying, " all 

 things come to him who waits," I may instance the treat- 

 ment by which a well-known Yorkshire breeder and breaker 

 — one who always broke-in his own colts— cured a stubborn 

 and by no means uncommon case of muHshness. Riding a 

 colt one day, about noon, the colt reested^ i.e. obstinately 

 refused to turn out of the road that led to his stables. He 

 reared, whipped round, kicked, plunged, stuck his toes firmly 

 in the ground, backed into the ditch, and otherwise behaved 

 himself unseemly. Many a man would have administered 

 severe punishment, and have endeavoured to exorcise the 

 demon of contrariness by free application of the Newmarket 

 fiogger and the Latchfords. Our friend's creed was the 

 siiaviter in inodo, spiced with patient determination. After 

 exhausting every method of kindness and encouragement 

 he determined to " sit it out," so, bringing the disobedient 

 youngster back to the point of disputed departure he halted 

 him there, sitting in his saddle as immovable as one of the 

 mounted sentries at the Horse Guards, or the Duke of 

 Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. At the end of an 

 hour's anchorage a fresh essay to make the pig-headed colt 

 go in the way it should go resulted in a renewed exhibition 

 of rearing. Observing a lad passing at the time, the deter- 

 mined tyke ordered him to go to his wife and tell her 



