4 THE ART OF TAMING HOUSES. 



Eiders have long known how, single-handed, to make a 

 horse lie down by fastening up one fore-leg, and then 

 with a rope suddenly pulling the other leg from under 

 him. The trick was practised in England more than 

 forty years ago, and forgotten. That no importance was 

 attached to this method of throwing a horse is proved by 

 the fact, that in the works on horsemanship, published 

 during the last twenty years, no reference is made to it. 

 When Mr. Starkey, of Wiltshire, a breeder and runner 

 of race -horses,* saw Mr. Earey operate for the first 

 time, he said, " Why I knew how to throw a horse in 

 that way years ago, but I did not know the use of it, 

 and was always in too great a hurry ! " Lord Berners 

 made nearly the same remark to me. Nimrod, Cecil, 

 Harry Hieover, Scrutator do not appear to have ever 

 heard of it. The best modern authority on such sub- 

 jects (British Eural Sports), describes a number of 

 difficulties in breaking colts which al together! disappear 

 under the Earey system especially the difficulty of 

 shoeing. 



Captain Nolan, who was killed at Balaklava, served in 

 an Hungarian regiment, in the Austrian service, after- 

 wards in our own service in India, and visited Eussia, 

 France, Denmark, and South Germany, to collect mate- 

 rials for his work on the " History of Cavalry and on 

 the Training of Horses," although he set out with the 

 golden rule laid down by the great Greek horseman, 

 Xenophon, more than a thousand years ago " HOUSES 



AEE TAUGHT, NOT BY HARSHNESS, BUT BY GENTLENESS," 



only refers incidentally to a plan for throwing a horse 

 dow:i, in an extract from Baucher's great work, which 

 will presently be quoted, but attaches no importance to 



* Owner of Fisherman. 



