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gons, hoops, or a crowd ; the sound of wheels, of drums, 

 of musketry. There are thousands of horses that by 

 degrees learn to bear all these things ; others, under 

 our old imperfect system, never improve, and continue 

 nervous or vicious to the end of their lives. Every year 

 good sound horses are drafted from the cavalry, or from 

 hunters' barbs and carriage-horses, into omnibuses and 

 Hansom cabs, because they cannot be made to bear the 

 sound of drums and firearms, or will not submit to be 

 shod, and be safe and steady in crowded cities, or at 

 covert side. Nothing is more common than to hear that 

 such a horse would be invaluable if he would go in 

 harness, or carry a lady, or that a racehorse of great 

 swiftness is almost valueless because his tempjer is so 

 bad, or his nervousness in a crowd so great that he 

 cannot be depended on to start or to run his best. 



All these varieties of nervous and vicious animals are 

 deteriorated in value, because they have not been edu- 

 cated to confide in and implicitly obey man. 



The whole object of the Earey system is, to give the 

 horse full confidence in his rider, to make him obedient 

 to his voice and gestures, and to impress the animal 

 with the belief that he could not successfully resist him. 



Lord Pembroke, in his treatise on Horsemanship, 

 says, "His hand is the best whose indications are so 

 clear that his horse cannot mistake them, and u-Jwse 

 gentleness and fearlessness alike induce obedience to 

 them." " The noblest animal," says Colonel Green- 

 wood, " will obey such a rider ; and it is ever the noblest, 

 most intelligent horses, that rebel the most. In riding 

 a colt or a restive horse we should never forget that he 

 has the right to resist, and that as far as he can judge 

 we have not the right to insist. The great thing in 

 horsemanship is to get the horse to be your party, not 



