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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 broken 

 submit for the time only, and the struggle 

 is to be repeated more or less often. 

 Except in those rare cases of horses natu- 

 rally vicious, and they are lunatics, fear 

 is the mastering passion of the horse. It 

 is cowardice that drives him to desperate 

 resistance against the sway of his master ; 

 the effort that is successful in ridding 

 him of his tyrant suggests his favourite 

 vice. 



I do not, in these remarks, have refer- 

 ence to those tricks that a horse acquires 

 through the inexperience or the timidity 

 of a rider, for, like all cowards, the horse 



