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of interest to the horseman. From Mr. Karey's pamphlet 

 and this English work our chapter has been compiled, and 

 we can assure the reader that, however much the practice 

 may be varied and extended, the system as now practiced 

 by Mr. Karey is here given : 



The subjection of vicious horses has been a great desid- 

 eratum ever since horses were first ridden by man, but, 

 until very recently, there has been no knowledge of a 

 rational means for rendering them docile or tractable. 

 The plans hitherto adopted have generally been too much 

 according to the directions of a ITorfolk trainer, of the 

 time of Queen Elizabeth, who wrote as follows : 



** If your horse does not stand still, or hesitates, then alrate him 

 with a terrible voyce ; and beat him yourself with a good sticke 

 upon the head between the ears; and then stick him in the spurring 

 place iii or iiii times together, with one legge after another, as fast 

 as your legges might walk : your legges must go like two bouching 

 beetles." 



The most celebrated horse tamer, before Earey's 

 time, was an Irishman named Dan Sullivan, known as the 

 ''Irish Whisperer," who would, after a half hour's private 

 interview with the most vicious horse, bring him out per- 

 fectly tamed, — so long as he himself used him, but he 

 would not remain docile in the hands of other persons. 

 Sullivan pretended to have got his secret from a poor sol- 

 dier, who revealed it as an Indian charm. The secret was 

 given by Sullivan to one of his sons, but it is not now 

 known. Probably it was not capable of a general appli- 

 cation. 



All other methods of taming very vicious horses, 

 so far as we have any information, have been based on 

 cruelty, and harsh treatment, and they were never entirely 

 successful. 



