HORSEMANSHIP. 



to send his dinner to the cross roads, for there he meant 

 to remain out all night and the day following if need be. 

 The repast duly arrived and was despatched on the animal's 

 back. Another effort was but a fresh failure, so the 

 statuesque weary wait was resumed, and the veteran breaker 

 sat again for hours immovable. Here was the living exem- 

 plification of Patience on a monument. With the setting 

 sun came the horseman's supper, still not a move, and the 

 sturdy yeoman prepared to make a night of it. In due 

 course his top-coat and a stiffly mixed " neet-cap " arrived. 

 Whether or no the colt divined the meaning of these 

 campaigning arrangements deponent sayeth not, anyhow, 

 his master had hardly donned the one and swallowed the 

 other when the quadruped, with one long sigh, one that 

 nearly carried the girths away^ all his obstinacy evaporated, 

 and thoroughly defeated, relieved himself from his post and 

 quietly walked down the road in the direction he had so 

 long protested so firmly against. The lesson was^ a per- 

 manent one ; it took some eight hours in the teaching, but 

 lasted a life-time — he never " stuck up" again. 



Horse-breaking or horse-taming are very much and very 

 eff'ectually understood and taught by Professor Sydney Gal- 

 vayne, the Australian expert, whose extensive establishment 

 at the Model Farm, Neasden, London, N.W., is well worthy 

 of a visit. The story I am about to relate refers to that 

 master-of-the-horse's struggle with, and victory over, that 

 concentrated essence of equine ferocity^ the Clydesdale sire, 

 "Lord Lyon," a horse of fine breeding, magnificent physique, 

 power, and action, and, but for his fiendish temper, as grand 

 a specimen of his race as has been produced. Some of my 

 readers may have heard of the vicious General Chasse, the 

 combative Alarm, the well-named Phlegethon — he of the 

 heUish temper, of Cruiser, and other man-eaters, but all com- 



