110 THE AKT OF TAMING HOESES. 



and our neighbour, meeting my father, expressed his 

 grievances at being thus taken in, and asked what he had 

 better do. The reply was ' Send the horse to me to- 

 morrow morning, and I will return him a good puller 

 within a week.' The horse being brought, was put into 

 the shafts of a wagon, in a field, with the hind wheels 

 tied, and being reined up so that he could not get his 

 head between his legs, was there left, with a man to 

 watch him for five or six hours, and, of course, without 

 any food. When my father thought he had enough 

 of standing still, he went up to him with a handful of 

 sweet hay, let down the bearing rein, and had the wheels 

 of the wagon released. After patting the horse on the 

 neck, when he had taken a mouthful or two of hay, he 

 took hold of the bridle and led him away the wagon 

 followed thus proving stratagem to be better than force. 

 Another lesson was scarcely required, but, to make sure, 

 it was repeated, and, after that, the horse was sent back 

 to the owner. There was no complaint ever made of 

 his jibbing again. The wagon to which he was attached 

 was both light and empty, and the ground inclined rather 

 towards the stable." 



