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speaking of. A well-known nobleman, so runs the 

 tale, had a wild horse which nobody could ride. " I 

 know not what your lordship can do with him," said 

 some one, " but to set the monkey on his back." So 

 they put a pad on the horse, and clapped the monkey 

 upon it with a switch in his hand, wherewith he be- 

 labored the horse, and set him into a furious kicking 

 and galloping, but pug still kept his seat. The horse 

 lay down on the ground ; but when he threw himself 

 on one side, the monkey was upon the other. He ran 

 into a wood to brush his rider off ; but the monkey 

 dodged from side to side so as to avoid every tree and 

 bush, until at last the horse was so sickened and 

 fatigued and broken spirited, that he ran home to 

 the stable for protection. When the monkey was re- 

 moved, a boy was put in his place, and managed the 

 horse with ease. The animal never gave any trouble 

 afterwards. 



Old books of farriery mention a plan for taming 

 intractable horses, which, we believe, has gone out of 

 fashion only on account of the trouble attending it. 

 We should be glad to see it revived, for we are in- 

 clined to think it would be attended with very good 

 results. The horse was tethered in his stall, with his 

 tail to the manger, prevented from lying down, and 

 kept without food or sleep for forty-eight hours or 

 more ; men, who relieved each other by turns, being 

 stationed at his head to rouse him whenever he began 



