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SUBJECTION.— ILLUSTilATl VE CASES. 



method must not be used when the character is such that 

 there is inclination to bite the checks or lips, or when the 

 head is interfered Avith, as there is then an inclination, as 

 in the mustang nature, to strike, and the treatment will be 

 difficult to ajiply. In this case the result Avas that both 

 cheeks Avere badly bruised,* making him again very Adolent 

 until cured, when I 

 applied the Second 

 Method, subduing 

 him in about twenty 

 minutes. 



I afterward gave 

 exhibitions of his 

 good character in 



the presence of Mr. K^i&jM^^^ AJS 

 Henry Bergh, Esq.. 

 President of the So- 

 ciety for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals, and other well-known 

 gentlem-en, when he Avas turned loose in the ring Avithout 

 anything on him, and submitted to handling Avith the 

 docility of any gentle horse. This was one of the fcAV 

 excej^tional cases that the most patient and kind treatment 

 Avould have no effect upon. As an illustration. Dr. Braily, 

 formerly Chief Veterinary Surgeon of U. S. Cavalry, a man 

 of exceptionally large experience in handling horses, tried 

 for over an hour, by scratching the mane, etc., to get his 

 hand upon a certain part of the head, Avithout being able to 

 do it. He had claimed that there Avas no living horse 

 Avhose head he could not in time by this method lay his 

 hand upon. I told him it could not be done in this case ; 

 if it could, I would give him one hundred dollars ; that the 

 only way it could be done Avas by proper subjective treat- 



FiG. 2SS.-AVilkins Horse. 



♦Proper treatment for such cases will be found in Medical Department. 



