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should be on the Galvayne method, a system only known 

 to the professor and his pupils, and which I, for palpable 

 reasons, may not here disclose. Go to Neasden, pay your 

 two guineas, or whatever the fee may now be, and learn that 

 in dealing with awkward horses all that is required is a little 

 common sense and the knowledge of how to apply it. 



When properly broken, as he will be under this system in 

 a veiy short space of time, ride him to one of his favourite 

 rcesting haunts, and, on his making the slightest attempt at 

 any of his vagaries, at once apply the reversing gear, back 

 him and spin him round till he reels under you, then, before 

 he has time to recover himself completely from his vertigo, 

 back him over the same ground, past the point of contention, 

 and the chances are that he will for that once, at least, forego 

 his desire to "stick up,"' and will do as he is bid. Even 

 without backing, though that is the trump card to play with 

 such an awkward hand, progress in the desired direction 

 may be made by spinning him, by means of a horizontal 

 pull, in the direction he wants, carrying his head, when you 

 mean him to proceed, beyond the point he had made up 

 his mind to go. The spinning must be continued till he is 

 thoroughly confused and quite thrown out of his calculations. 

 When he has had a full dose of circling, all thought of re- 

 sistance will have vanished. 



Should the rider lack confidence in himself to do battle 

 with and subdue an obdurate, inflexible brute — one 

 endowed with an extra load of *' cussedness" — he may put 

 the following bewildering lesson into practice. Previous to 

 starting on his ride, having provided himself with eight or 

 nine feet of stout, strong, and dependable cord, made of 

 four or five strands of the best whip-cord, and some well- 

 tarred spun-yarn or waxed string, he, on the first symptom 

 of the coming sticking-up performance, should dismount, 



