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uame on the right man. He breaks the 

 colt's confidence, he breaks his manners, 

 often he breaks a tendon or ligament, and 

 nearly always breaks his heart. 



This summer I went to look at a three- 

 year-old, for sale, and was told it was " at 

 the breaker's." With some difficulty I 

 found the place ; and this is what I beheld, 

 peering over a wall, mounted on a friendly 

 heap of dirt thrown up alongside. One 

 colt and three young men. A was on 

 its back, in a buck-jumping saddle, with 

 a cutting cane whip ; B on the ground, 

 holding in one hand a rope about three 

 yards long tied to the colt's head-stall, and 

 in the other a sort of bludgeon, which 

 looked like a Jersey cabbage-stick ; held 

 an ordinary stable-broom in his hand, to 



