22 THE HORSE AND HIS EIDER. 



him;" and accordingly, as soon as tKe homicide entered 

 his stable, with a steady step, but avoiding looking into 

 his eye, he walked up to liim, and then, not waiting 

 for a declaration of war, but with a short, heavy bludgeon, 

 striking the inside of his knees, he knocked his fore legs 

 from under him, and the instant he fell, belaboured his 

 head and body until the savage proprietor of both became 

 so completely terrified, that he ever afterwards seemed 

 almost to quail whenever his conqueror walked up to 

 him. 



Now, on comparing the two opposite systems, humane 

 and inhuman, scientific and unscientific, just described, 

 it must be apparent to everybody, that while for the 

 latter a powerful hero must be procured, all that is 

 requisite for the former is calmness, gentleness, and two 

 little straps which, in a lower stratum, physically fight a 

 desperate battle, above which man morally and serenely 

 presides ; the horse, nevertheless, all the while ascribing 

 to him alone the whole credit of the victory eventually 

 attained. 



Under the ordinary process used by horse-breakers, it 

 requires several weeks before a colt — often broken down 

 as well as in by the operation — surrenders his own will 

 to that of his rider, whereas Mr. Rarey has not only in 

 public repeatedly demonstrated, but many who have fol- 

 lowed his prescription have testified, that a young 



