242 HORSE AND MAN. 



away, we should have no excuse for attaching to the 

 animal an appliance which keeps him in constant 

 pain while he is at work, which inflicts upon him a 

 variety of painful ailments, and which helps to wear 

 him out in a life of suffering before he has passed 

 the half of his natural existence. 



Parenthetically, with regard to the runaway 

 horse, Mr. Gr. Ransom (' Free Lance ') has invented a 

 contrivance which, without inflicting the least pain, 

 will stop the most infuriated horse within a few yards. 

 He was good enough to present me with his original 

 model. It is made of brass, and somewhat resembles 

 a lady's hinged bracelet not quite three quarters of 

 an inch in width. 



When fitted, it passes over the nose and is not 

 in the least conspicuous. If the horse attempts to 

 run away, the driver or rider has only to pull a strap 

 connected with the apparatus, which has the effect 

 of closing the nostrils. Now the horse, when its 

 nostrils are closed, is quite helpless, not being able 

 to breathe, and so is brought to a standstill. 



The North American Indian women have a 

 similar mode of teaching their babies not to cry. 

 The first time that a baby raises its voice, the mother 

 closes its mouth and compresses its nostrils, and as 

 the process is repeated whenever the child cries, it 



