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him with another horse, though this is not abso- 

 lutely necessary ; for many horses, especially high 

 spirited ones, will often go as well as if they had 

 been gentied ibr a long time; some others appear 

 a little awkward at first, but in half an hour they 

 will go well alone. At any rate, they will not be 

 afraid of any object they meet. 



I have here given the whole secret of taming, 

 in a few hours, the most refractory wild horse. 



Whilst residing in the city of Mexico, I wrote a 

 grammar, in Greek, Latin, French and English, 

 which I intend to publish, in order to simplify, in 

 some measure, the study of the former. In it I be- 

 gin by making the student acquainted with the 

 most common names — such as fall under his im- 

 mediate view. The names of birds, fish, plants, 

 trees, the human body and its parts, &c., &c. In 

 the declination of all these, will be found general 

 rules; but all, or almost all of these rules, are sub- 

 ject to some one or more exceptions — as is the case 

 with all general rules. Thence, perhaps, came our 

 proverb : There is no rule without exception. Now, 

 as gentling a horse, and writing a grammar, are 

 two veiy different occupations, yet they have some 

 things which are common to both : one of which is, 

 this same exception to the general rule. I have 

 given a detail of the method I use in breaking the 

 three different kinds of horses ; that is, horses in 



