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bnt he will soon forget his unnoticed 

 defiance. Under proper treatment he 

 will in time yield to the will of his 

 master without dreaming of resistance. 

 The story of Tarleton taming his 

 savage steed with bloody spurs, and the 

 vivid descriptions of the manner in 

 which the Mexican breaks the spirit 

 of the mustang, may pass to adorn the 

 pages of a romance, or to heighten the 

 interest of a traveller's tale. But, 

 aside from the cruelty and peril of such 

 methods, there remains the fact that 

 horses so hrol'en submit for the time 

 only, and the struggle is to be repeated 

 more or less often. Except in those 

 rare cases of horses naturally vicious, 

 and they are lunatics, fear is the 

 mastering passion of the horse. It is 



