CHAPTER XT II. 



SUBJECTION. 



In this chapter I wish to embody explanations which I 

 could not well give in other parts; it may also be considered 

 as a continuation of the first chapter. 



The first account I find of any one taming a horse is 



Fig. 252. — The leg tied up, and surcingle on. 



that of Alexander the Great, when a boy of seventeen, 

 taming Bucephalus, The story, as recorded, is as follows : 

 A horse was ofi'ercd for sale to PhiHp of Macedon, who, 

 perceiving he was unmanageable, ordered him to be taken 



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