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get him off a man he was worrying, and, in doing so, 

 knocked out the brute's off-side eye, which gives him 

 on that side even a more terrible appearance than on 

 the side with the eye perfect. Some years ago we 

 recollect reading of a bad blood stallion that had both 

 its eyes put out, because it was worth a man's life to 

 approach it. Now arises the question — Why do 

 horses become such murderous brutes ? It cannot be 

 stated that it is innate in the disposition of the animal, 

 which, when a foal, is such a pretty, active, harmless, 

 little animal, and is often reared as a pet. We hear 

 that ' Lord Lyon ' was reared by hand on cow's milk. 

 As Mr. Galvayne said, in his lecture before commencing 

 with the animal, temperament may be inherited, but 

 actual vice, in his opinion, never. Horses are made vicious, 

 either by cruelty, ignorance, or mismanagement — more 

 frequently by the latter. To keep a stallion in proper 

 health — whether in or out of season — he should be 

 worked or exercised, taught obedience, and made to 

 obey. Nothing is easier than to manage a horse 

 properly, if the manager only knows how it should be 

 done ; and this was well exemplified by the Australian 

 tamer when in the ring with this ponderous and 

 ferocious brute. ' Lord Lyon ' was led by four men, 

 each having hold of a lo-feet rope, from the stables, 

 and they were followed by a big crowd to the scene of 

 action. No difficulty was experienced in getting him 

 into the marquee ; the only difficult}' that might arise 



