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hands of a man who loses temper and patience at his 

 awkwardness and unintentional disobedience or mistakes. 

 Besides, some men with tlie best intentions have peculiar 

 ideas of what is right ; and as there are men born for 

 every business in life, those who have dealings with the 

 minds and dispositions of animals should be selected ac- 

 cording to principle, and thus the right man put in the 

 right place. Yet in the family circle, as well as in the 

 stable, there are men with furious tempers who are can- 

 didates for love, domestic happiness and willing obedi- 

 ence of all around them.. How common it is for an 

 inconsiderate, nervous *^ crank" to take a young, inexpe- 

 rienced and timid girl at her parents' hands to wife, and 



Fig. 6. — TAMED. 



expect her to fall into all his ways and pleasures, and 

 please him in all his whims and fancies. And when she 

 fails in trifling points, she has to submit to his irritable 

 disposition and sallies of temper, and thus, before she 

 has had time to know his nature and ways, his likes and 

 dislikes, and to learn to comply with a heart-felt desire 

 to please, her spirit becomes broken. The strain is 

 put on too soon, and many a good girl gets sjooiled by 

 such men, wiio think the whole art and science of j^leas- 

 ing must be embodied in their wives' dispositions, and 

 none in their own. The anger, selfishness and unkind 

 treatment of sach men are out of proportion to the sup- 

 posed neglect or offence. It is unfortunately sometimes 

 so on both sides, '^^when Greek meets Greek." 



But, fortunately for our equine companion, we find this 



