146 NO "WHIP. 



Tlie boy took the old horse into a deep quiet part of the 

 river and brought him round again. The colt followed, getting 

 a complete wash, which he much needed. They were then taken 

 down the river bed to the gate, where the horses had been 

 first separated, and entered the paddock, after which the old 

 horse was taken away. 



322. — The colt was now half led and half lounged, and was 

 kept moving, not with a whip, but with a tree called a gin tree, 

 which grows twenty feet long without a branch, and not much 

 more than an inch in diameter at the butt, with thick narrow 

 leaves at the end more than a foot long. 



This was at first shaken at him, then put on him, then 

 under him, then between his hind legs, and when he would no 

 longer take any notice of it, a short stick was used in the same 

 way, and then the hands. 



323. — The old flax overcoat or cape was again produced, 

 and was used in the same way that it had been in the swamp 

 after which nothing seemed to alarm the colt. A saddle was put 

 on, as easily as on an old horse, the old ugly cape was fastened to 

 it, then a number of other soft materials, and finally one of the 

 barefooted boys that had danced upon him in the swamp. No 

 attempt was made to throw anything off, and we were obliged to 

 confess that we had never seen a wild horse broken so thoroughly 

 and so well in so short a time, and that without a scratch or a 

 single whip mark. 



324. — The same sensible treatment was followed up. All 

 the tribe had something to do with the colt. Small branches 

 were tied to his tail, and then larger ones, that dragged on the 

 ground, until it was impossible to frighten him with anything, 

 and we saw at once why " Grace Darling" had hauled the logs 

 and carried the bed feathers so quietly. 



NORTH AMERICA 



325. — Is a great country in every sense of the word. It is 

 especially great in steam engines, railways, horse cultivators and 

 engines, horses, mules, or anything connected with locomotion. 

 The largest section of the English speaking race is there, spread 



