TAMING HORSES. 97 



A MODE OF BREAKING WILD HORSES, VERY 



DIFFERENT FROM THAT DISCOVERED 



BY ME. 



I have seen a wild horse taken and shut up in a 

 stable. The man who was to gentle or tame him, 

 took a whip, such as a coachman uses, and went in 

 to him ; and, as the horse was frightened, and ran 

 away from him, he fell to whipping him most un- 

 mercifully. At the end of half an hour, the horse, 

 seeing it impossible to escape the whip by running 

 away, advanced towards the man who had been 

 his persecutor. The man threw down his whip, 

 and began to handle him ; but the horse, at the 

 end of a few minutes, began to be refractory, when 

 he took it up again, and repeated the lesson with 

 so much severity, that the horse soon came back 

 to him. This he continued for some time ; when, 

 at the end of about two hours, he saddled the horse 

 and drove him about with his whip, making him 

 come up to him every now and then, till at last he 

 mounted him and rode off very well. I observed, 

 that the horse frequently trembled, when he went 

 to get on him, notwithstanding he rode him off 

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