22 Hints on Colt-Breaking. 



give the requisite variety. " Get on, 

 then ! " (which of course the poor beast 

 did not understand, any more than you 

 or I do Sanscrit), and whack ! came down 

 A's cane, while C rushed from behind 

 and prodded with the bristles of the brush. 

 Naturally the colt gave a terrified leap 

 forward, when B promptly hit him on the 

 nose, to stop him, while A sawed his 

 mouth with the bit. I think this is a 

 good plan to make a sensitive animal 

 perfectly vicious, and this, ladies and 

 gentlemen, is what your favourites under- 

 go when you pay your ten guineas for 

 their month's change of air. I asked if 

 the colt was a vicious one, and received 

 the answer, " Oh no ! but it is the 

 first time he has had a saddle on, and 



