200 TEACHING YEARLINGS. 



horses and colts; each boy now mounts in the 

 stable the horse or colt he looks after ; and the 

 whole of them are then rode out into the 

 stable-yard : here they are to walk for a short 

 time, till their saddles may get settled to their 

 backs. They then walk on to the downs, follow- 

 ed by the groom on his hack. The old horses, 

 for the present under the care of the head lad, 

 may go to any convenient part of the ground to 

 exercise by themselves, as directed by the groom; 

 but the yearlings must now be under the tuition 

 of the groom himself, so that he may be able to 

 obtain a thorough knowledge of how they are 

 likely to turn out. For, although we are to consi- 

 der them as being well broken, yet it is likely there 

 are some among them who may, from the neces- 

 sary indulgence occasionally allowed them, have 

 become hearty, and some others may shew some 

 little hereditary vice. A colt or two, becoming 

 unruly from either of those causes, may swerve 

 or bolt out from the string; if he do not break 

 way, he may rear up, spring forward, and then 

 lash out behind; in doing of which he may get 

 the better of a small light boy and throw him. 

 If a colt does this, he will, the first opportunity 

 that offers, (as the boy being off his guard), have 

 recourse to the same sort of thing again, with a 



