x.] COLT-BREAKING. 103 



the colt will be very easily tackled: I do not expect so 

 easily to tackle his rider, but I will try. 



As Lord Pembroke remarks in his admirable treatise, Sermon to 



the colt- 



his hand is the best who gets his horse to do what he breaker - 

 wishes with the least force, whose indications are so clear 

 that his horse cannot mistake them, and whose gentle- 

 ness and fearlessness alike induce obedience to them. 

 The noblest animal will obey such a rider, as surely as 

 he will disregard the poltroon, or rebel against the 

 savage. I say the noblest, because it is ever the noblest The noblest 



horse re- 



among them which rebel the most. For the dominion of sists the 



most. 



man over the horse is an usurped dominion. And in 

 riding a colt, or a restive horse, we should never forget 

 that he has by nature the right to resist ; and that, at Has a riyht 



to resist. 



least, as far as he can judge, we have not the right to 

 insist. 



When the stag is taken in the toils, the hunter feels 

 neither surprise nor anger at his struggles and alarm; 

 and indeed he would be very unreasonable were he to 

 chastise the poor animal on account of them. But there 



