MADE FOR SALE. ISS' 



to liis kuees or to tliree legs, so that the saddle can be girthed on 

 him ; a " black fellow" is hoisted to his back, his foot is let 

 down, and he starts to a series of efforts to rid himself from 

 the frightful object that clings to him like a jaguar, and 

 thus becomes a buck jumper for the rest of his short and 

 suffering life. 



299. — Like Peter Pindar's razoi's, these hastily handled 

 horses are not made for use, but for sale. They do to export 

 where they get more broken on the voyage to India, or to sell by 

 auction, and are not unfrequently bought by those who keep 

 horses for some cruel destructive work, trusting to fatigue to 

 quiet them. They are harnessed to four-horse coaches without 

 any farther breaking in, and form the far travelling, illused,. 

 jibbing horses that are everywhere to be seen drawing the public 

 conveyances of Australia. The poor things have never been 

 taught to walk a step in harness, and are afraid to do so. It is 

 no uncommon thing to see an Australian coach delayed five 

 minutes, or even quarter of an hour, after changing horses, before 

 any two of the nervous, untaught, timid, illused brutes, can 

 be made to rush in one direction long enough to start the coach 

 on level ground, a piece of ignorance for which they are 

 belaboured and galloped the whole stage by the infuriated 

 coachman, most of the passengers declaring that the " obstinate 

 brutes richly deserve it." 



300. — So limited is the education of these wild, high-spirited 

 horses that they will often carry a man without a coat, but not 

 with, or vice versa. If his hat comes oflP they mistake him for 

 some wild animal that they have never seen before. If his foot 

 slips out of the stirruj) they jump from its threatening swing, 

 and we hear how cunning and artful they are to take such an 

 advantage in a moment. 



301. — It was one of these half-broken horses that killed the 

 Rev. Mr. Johnson in Adelaide. He had hired a horse that 

 seemed quiet enough under him, with his hat on, but when his 

 hat blew off the untamed animal flew away at a frantic pace 

 and threw him on the hard road, with fatal velocity. A smith,, 

 an engineer, or an architect is liable to be tried for manslaughter 



