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him is abandoned until a sufficient number of men 

 can be gathered together, when the colt is held down 

 by sheer brute strength, and the bit pushed into his 

 mouth not infrequently with the end of a stick. 

 Thus, the poor colt receives his first lesson of cruelty, 

 which he does not readily forget. 



He is then taken into a court or field, generally 

 the latter, and subjected to the most barbarous 

 and unnecessary abuse imaginable. He is flogged 

 and galloped round, one man taking his turn in 

 following him with the whip when another becomes 

 exhausted, unmindful of the poor animal which must 

 run for them all. This barbarous treatment is con- 

 tinued till the white foam stands in great balls over 

 his quivering chest, and his started veins and heaving 

 flanks denote only too well the intense agony that 

 the poor brute is suffering. In many cases of similar 

 treatment we have seen a raw, grass-fed colt fall 

 down through sheer exhaustion. 



THE EFFFXTS OF SUCH TREATMENT. 



The colt is now considered by his tormentors to 

 be " conquered," but no one who understands the 

 proud, sensitive nature of a horse will believe it. 

 Conquered by such treatment he can never be ! In 

 fact, the colt is infinitely more dangerous now than 

 if he had never been touched, because everything 

 he has been made to do has been done through 

 force and fear. The whole nervous system of the 

 colt has been unstrung through pain and terror, and 



