36 TAMING HORSES. 



advance as slowly as possible, and without making 

 the least noise, always holding out your left hand, 

 without any other ingredient in it tlian what na- 

 ture put in it. The reason of my having made 

 use of certain ingredients before people — such as 

 the sweat from under a man's arm, &c. — was, to 

 disguise the real secret ; and Drinnen, as well as 

 several others, believed that the docility to which 

 the horse arrived, in so short a time, w^as owing to 

 those ingredients. It will be seen, in this expla- 

 nation of the secret, that they were of no use, 

 whatever; but, by placing so much confidence in 

 them, those who had succeeded in breaking one 

 horse, failed in another, and that is what I foresaw. 

 No one can accuse me of bad faith, to whom I 

 discovered this or any part of th6 secret ; for I al- 

 ways intended to publish the whole. In the second 

 place, many revealed what I had told them, after 

 the most solemn promise to the contrary. Caution 

 is the parent of safety : I, therefore, by multiply- 

 ing the ingredients, caused a confusion amongst 

 those who thought they knew the real secret. 

 Though I revealed enough of the secret for a man 

 to break a horse in a few hours, it was not enough 

 to make the horse remain gentle ; that is, generally 

 speaking : for some horses would be ^^erfectly gen- 

 tle ever after ; but the greater number would not. 

 The implicit faith placed in these ingredients, 



