34 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



of days. I need not dwell on the value of such 

 expedition in military exigencies, and in all cases 

 where time is an object. "Spoiled" horses, such as 

 jibbers, rearers, kickers, and buckjumpers, that have 

 learned to know their own power, would, naturally, 

 take longer to break, than entirely unhandled 

 animals ; although the limit of five days need not, 

 usually, be exceeded even with them. The possi- 

 bility of horses going back to their old tricks may 

 always be provided against by judicious repetition 

 of the necessary discipline, which will be very rarely 

 needed after the first three or four days, if the 

 animal be "mouthed" in the manner -I shall here- 

 after describe. Without using any forcible methods, 

 which, as a rule, would not be required with a 

 valuable horse, the breaker ought not to need more 

 than a week to make any ordinary horse thoroughly 

 fit for all the usual requirements of saddle or 

 harness. 



To those who might advance the argument that 

 because the ordinary method of breaking takes 



