16 THE HOESE AND HIS EIDER. 



MR. KAEEY'S MODE OF SUBDUING HORSES. 



IT is a singular fact, that although England produces the 

 finest horses in the world, and though the English people 

 have always fancied they understood their management 

 better than any other nation, yet, lately, not only have 

 we all been astonished by the superior knowledge on 

 this subject of a trans-Atlantic cousin, but what is still 

 more surprising, our sporting men have rushed forwards 

 to pay to Mr. Earey no less a sum than about 15,000. 

 for exhibiting to them a system of horse-breaking, the 

 philosophy of which is based upon a few simple facts, 

 which, although unreflected on, have ever been lying 

 close before our eyes. 



Of all animals in creation, there is no one we should all 

 of us be so very sorry to lose as the horse. In peace and 

 in war, on burning sands under the equator, or on eternal 

 snow in the frigid zone, for pleasure or for business, well 

 fed or starving, he is always not only ready, but eager, 

 to the utmost of his strength, to serve a master, but too 

 often inconsiderate, ungrateful to him, and unjust. As 

 soon as his courage is excited, no fall, bruise, blow, or 

 wound, that does not paralyse the mechanism of his limbs, 

 will stop him ; indeed, with his upper and lower jaw 

 shot away, and with the skin dangling in ribands, we have 



