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that his strength gives him an advantage over his mas- 

 ter — man. Unconsciously deprived of his power of 

 resistance, his courage vanishes ; the spirit which rose 

 against all accountable efforts to subdue it, that would 

 scorn to yield to overweight, pace, work, or any other 

 evidence of man's power, and which in the well-dis- 

 position ed animal causes him to strain every nerve to 

 meet what is required of him rather than succumb, is 

 by Rarey's system subdued through a ruse so effected 

 that the power which overwhelms all the creature's 

 efforts at resistance appears to originate and be identi- 

 fied with the man who can thus, for the first time, take 

 liberties with him, which he has lost the power of re- 

 senting ; and man thenceforward becomes his master. 

 The method pursued by Mr Earey in subduing such 

 a vicious and ungovernable horse as Cruiser, is this : 

 Placing himself under a waggon laden with hay, to 

 which the animal is partly coaxed, partly led by guide- 

 ropes, and stealing his fingers through the spokes of 

 the waggon-wheel, he raises and gently straps up one 

 fore leg, and fastens a long strap round the fetlock of 

 the other, the end of which he holds in his hand and 

 checks when necessary. The beast, thus unconsciously 

 tampered with, is quite disposed to resent in his usual 

 style the subsequent impertinent familiarities of his 

 tamer; but being by the foregoing precautions cast 

 prostrate on his first attempt to move, and finding all 

 his efforts to regain his liberty and carry out reprisals 

 abortive, worn-out and hopeless, he at length yields 

 himself helplessly to his victor's obliging attentions, of 

 sitting on him as he lies, drumming and fiddling in his 

 ears, &c, and is thenceforward man's obedient and 

 tractable servant. 



