TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 1 75 



After a time it became difificult to secure horses at 

 the spring. Rain fell, and so long as the surface 

 water lasted, no mobs showed themselves. So it was 

 determined to try other means to secure them. 

 Running them in was to be tried, and for this pur- 

 pose a new yard was erected at one corner of the 

 paddock, with a calico wing, and some of the neigh- 

 bours were to be asked to help at driving up. A large 

 quantity of cheap calico was purchased to make the 

 wing. This was torn into narrow strips about a foot 

 wide and joined together, making, when finished, a 

 length of nearly two miles. One end of it was 

 fastened to the corner post of the yard, the calico 

 gradually payed out of a spring-cart to two men 

 following on foot, who fastened it from tree to tree. 

 The country was thickly timbered, and the calico made 

 an excellent fence to keep the horses in the right 

 direction when once started. Very little, by the way, 

 will turn a mob of wild horses ; and the sight of this 

 long white line through the timber almost invariably 

 stopped them when they showed any inclination to 

 break away. To make assurance doubly sure the 

 wing was strengthened for the first quarter of a mile 

 by a post and rail fence, so that should any of the 

 horses, when they sighted the yard, rush the wing, the 

 post and rails would prevent their escaping. 



The horsemen spread through the scrub, starting 

 mobs as they went, and keeping them as near as 



