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182. — Ravey has done much for the horse by showin": the 

 most expeditious method of reconciling him to all the objects of 

 his groundless fears. We are quite ready to admit that Rarey's 

 system is not the best possible system under which a horse can 

 be educated, nor one that we would adopt with a very valuable 

 horse in a country where good men can be got at reasonable 

 wages to haudle him. 



But, like cheap eugraviugs, his system is a boou to the 

 millions, and a moderately humane way to make millions of 

 horses useful upon whose education much time or money will 

 never be spent. Where the total value of a horse is less than 

 the wages of a man for a week, nothing wiil induce his owners 

 to employ a man for a month to prepare him for market. In 

 such circumstances we must seek for cheap and expeditious 

 methods, making them at the same time as efficient and humane 

 as we can. We have broken horses that cost five hundred pounds 

 each, we have broken others, eight of which were bought for 

 five pounds. However much we may determine to treat them all 

 humanely, no one could be expected to spend an equal amount of 

 time and trouble on their education. The one will be treated as 

 princes the other as Sam Wellers. 





