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The Book of the Horse. 



a cream-coloured stallion from Her Majesty's stud, that had resisted every effort of the rough- 

 riders of the regiment to make it carry the kettledrums. 



The horse was in the riding-school. Rarey took one of the drums, placed it before the 

 horse's nose, and by degrees got him to smell it ; then gave it a slight tap with his fingers, on 

 which the horse started, but smelt it again. Repeating this operation again and again louder, 

 and each time with a drumstick, after a series of starts and smells, the horse began to find out 

 that the drum did him no harm. The drum was then placed against his side, and the tapping 

 process repeated ; finally, within certainly less than an hour, Rarey mounted his pupil and 

 marched him round the school, beating the drum loudly. From that time forward the cream 



EDMOND, BY ORVILLE, THOROUGHBRED HORSE, IN HARNESS.* 



stallion bore the gorgeously-attired drummer, beating the silver kettledrums, pacing proudly at 

 the head of the regiment. 



Many horses cannot be broken, especially to harness, without a certain degree of force and 

 punishment, but it should be the aim to create no unnecessary alarm. 



With the harness on, let the horse be led about, and finally driven about, by a man on 

 foot, until he becomes thoroughly accustomed to it. Some persons recommend having two men 

 to hang on the traces, to teach the horse the feel of the collar ; but this takes up the time of 

 three men, which is not always convenient. 



Where a large empty barn or other covered place, or an empty fold-yard, is available for 

 these prehminaries, and also for putting in harness and driving in a carnage the first time, 



* Was first hunted. In harness couUl trot sixteen miles an hour. Shot when twenty-four years old, after an accident. 



