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heartless savage chucks the more, to punish the horse 

 for, perhaps, a little impatience under the pressure of late 

 hours and an empty stomach that makes a horse, as well 

 as a man, impatient. We don't beheve there is one civil 

 riding master in twenty who instructs his pupils in the 

 nature and uses of the bits he gives them to handle. Are 

 there any ? Equestrian pupils are left to find out and learn 

 from others as best they may, as boys in public schools are 

 left to tbemseh^es to learn to write without regular daily 

 instruction. It is well they are not allowed to take tlieir 

 copies home. Why ? 



In parts of the world where it is considered superfluous 

 to devote either time, patienc^ or kindness in breaking 



Fif2;. 4. — WILD. 



in young horses, brute force and cruelty are resorted to, 

 and they soon tell on the sjDirit of the animal, which 

 never recovers from the unnatural treatment and abuse. 

 The Mexican lop-eared ass is an evidence of this, for 

 cruelty is the only word he seems to utter or represent, 

 wdth a repeated Au-eh? Au. We captured a band of wild 

 horses on the plains of the Pacific slope in the early days 

 ('49) of California, and while handling a young, spirited 

 animal, with appropriate consideration for his surprise at 

 being a captive, a Chilian, who was looking on, said, on 

 seeing our treatment of the colt: '^'That is not the way 

 we break in horses in Chili." As we were curious to 

 know the course pursued there, Ave handed him over the 

 colt to break in according to his Chilian method. He 

 tied the colt's head, with a lasso, to a tree in his front. 



