22 THE ART OF TAMING HORSES. 



hounds, stood through a long lesson, and was as much 

 delighted as his son the Honourable Frederick Yilliers, 

 Master of the Pytchley Hounds. Sir Tatton Sykes of 

 Sledmere, perhaps the finest amateur horseman that ever 

 rode a race, whose equestrian performances on the 

 course and in the hunting-field date back more than 

 sixty years, was as enthusiastic in his approval as the 

 young Guardsman who, fortified by Mr. Earey 's lessons, 

 mastered a mare that had defied the efforts of all the 

 farriers of the Household Cavalry. 



In a word, the five-hundred list was filled, and over- 

 flowed, the subscribers were satisfied, and the respon- 

 sibility of Messrs. Tattersall as stakeholders for the 

 public ceased, and the Secretary and Treasurer to the 

 fund, having wound up the accounts and retired, the 

 connection between Mr. Earey and the Messrs. Tatter- 

 sail resolved itself into the use of an office at Hyde 

 Park Corner. 



The London subscription list had passed eleven hun- 

 dred names, and, in conjunction with the subscription 

 received in Yorkshire, Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, 

 and Paris, besides private lessons at 25 each, had 

 realised upwards of 20,000 for Mr. Earey and his 

 partner, when the five-hundred secrecy agreement was 

 extinguished by the re-publication of the little American 

 pamphlet already mentioned. 



It was high time that it should, for, while Mr. Earey 

 had been handsomely paid for his instruction, the more 

 scrupulous of his subscribers were unable to practise his 

 lessons for want of a place where they could work in 

 secrecy. 



