THE AET OF TAMING HORSES. 



EDITORS DETAILED EXPLANATIONS. 



Although, as I before observed, the tying up of the 

 fore-leg is not a new expedient, or even the putting a horse 

 down single-handed, the two operations, as taught and 

 performed by Mr. Rarey, not only subdue and render 

 docile the most violent horses, but, most strange of all, 

 inspire them with a positive confidence and affection 

 after two or three lessons from the horse-tamer. " How 

 this is or why this is," Mr. Langworthy, the veterinary 

 surgeon to Her Majesty's stables, observed, " I cannot 

 say or explain, but I am convinced, by repeated observa- 

 tion on many horses, that it is a fact." 



If, however, a man, however clever with horses, were 

 to attempt to perform the operations without other in- 

 struction than that contained in the American pamphlet, 

 he would infallibly break his horse's knees, and probably 

 get his toes trodden on, his eyes blacked, and his arm 

 dislocated for all these accidents have happened within 

 my own knowledge to rash experimentalists ; while under 

 proper instructions, not only have stout and gouty 

 noblemen succeeded perfectly, but the slight-built, 

 professional horsewoman, Miss Gilbert, has conquered 

 thorough-bred colts and fighting Arabs, and a young and 

 beautiful peeress has taken off her bonnet before going to 

 a morning fete, and in ten minutes laid a full-sized horse 

 prostrate and helpless as a sheep in the hands of the 

 shearer. 



Having, then, in your mind Mr. Rarey 's maxim that a 

 horseman should know neither fear nor anger, and having 

 laid in a good stock of patience, you must make your ap- 

 proach to the colt or stallion in the mode prescribed in 



