204 THE JAM OF JAMNUGGER 



Baucher, or ought since to have built up on the foundation 

 laid by this great man, seems to have been swallowed up 

 in his craze for matters English. In dress and horse rig 

 and seat he closely follows the Briton, and then forsooth 

 rides all day long on the curb, as the Briton never would 

 do. This incompleteness makes me think of the portrait 

 of the Jam of Jamnugger, which I possess, dressed in all 

 the magnificence of a Hindoo maharajah, except for his 

 feet, which are incased in a pair of three-dollar Douglas 

 shoes ! Please note that this also is not a paid Ad., 

 though it ought to be. In many matters equine the 

 French are as admirable as in their own specialty, the 

 Percheron; but not so in riding. And yet, as was ob- 

 served long ago, they are horsy enough to call their 

 mothers mares and dub their daughters fillies. 



The French have done one thing which we must not 

 forget. The first man who showed the world that intelli- 

 gent kindness was the real secret of horse breaking and 

 training was the Frenchman Baucher. Up to his day 

 colts had been broken by cruel methods, and were never 

 more than half trained. The tempers of the majority 

 were irretrievably ruined. Baucher taught an entirely 

 new system, and the whole world has benefited by it. 

 Even English breakers, though they scorn his higher edu- 

 cation, unwittingly make use of the devices he intro- 

 duced. 



It has, however, been reserved for Governor Leland Stan- 

 ford's farm at Palo Alto to perfect the methods of kind- 

 ness. The men on the place are forbidden to speak in an 

 angry tone to a colt ; a man who should swear at or strike 

 one would be instantly discharged. From the time the 

 foal is born, he is habituated to the presence and the gen- 

 tling of man, and is taught that he receives nothing but 

 kindness and favors at his hands. One rule is enforced : 



