MR. RARETS MODE OF SUBDUING- HORSES. 21 



in the skin, lie then allows his conqueror to sit on his 

 ribs, to fiddle in his ears, drum to the gaping and gasp- 

 ing audience : in short, as the Duke of Wellington 

 described Lord Ellenborough's proclamation about the 

 gates of Sumnauth, to sing over his carcase "a song of 

 triumph." And thus as Achilles was mortally wounded 

 in the only vulnerable part of his body the heel, so 

 does Cruiser find that in a heart which had never before 

 failed him, and which had been the terror of all who 

 approached him, there exists a weak point, discovered 

 by Mr. Earey, which has caused his complete subjection 

 to man. 



" Is this the face that faced ten thousand men, 

 And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke ? " 



In old times this conversion of the bully into the 

 coward could only be effected, at great risk, by courage 

 and physical force, as follows : 



Some years ago Captain , the well-known steeple- 

 chase rider, bought at Tattersall's, for a very small sum, 

 a magnificent horse that no stranger in the yard dared 

 approach, and which therefore was "put up'' and honestly 

 sold as a " man-killer." 



On these propensities being explained by the purchaser 

 to his head groom, the resolute fellow bluntly replied that 

 he would not at all object to take care of the beast pro- 

 vided he were allowed, " in self-defence, to kill or cure 



