PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION, xv 



It goes almost without saying, that the more difficult the pupil is to 

 teach, the greater chance has the instructor of becoming expert in his 

 business. I need hardly say, that I shall always be very grateful to 

 any of my readers who may favour me with special information on 

 this, or kindred subjects. 



I may mention, that, after returning from India, I held classes in 

 England, Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, and China. 



I have much pleasure in giving, in the body of this work, the sources 

 from which I have taken various hints. 



The chief claim I, here, make to originality, is, that in bringing 

 together the results of experience in different countries, I have endea- 

 voured to reduce the art of breaking horses to a more or less complete 

 system, many of the principles of which, I venture to think, I have 

 been the first to expound, and that I have made several improvements 

 in existing methods. The new things which I have introduced need 

 no special mention here. 



My best thanks are due to ]\Ir. J. H, Oswald Brown, for the faithful 

 and painstaking manner in which he has illustrated the letter-press of 

 this book. The drawings speak for themselves. 



Junior Army and Navy Club, 



St. James's Street^ London, S.W. 

 October I, i88q. 



