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illustration of the extraordinary power which the system 

 giyes the man over the horse. By the exercise of this 

 power, aud subsequent kindness, the colt is made fully 

 aware that man is his natural master, and that, by 

 yielding to the powerful and intelligible signals given 

 to him during the first lesson, he experiences nothing 

 but kindness. His confidence in his trainer is at once 

 established, and> so long as he receives kindly treatment, 

 he submits to his after-lessons, such as mouthing, 

 mounting, backing, harnessing, and the like, without 

 any of that cringing timidity or rebellion usual with 

 colts in the first stages of the old system of breaking ; 

 for when one man can make a horse lie down in the 

 space of a few minutes, and lie still, it needs no philo- 

 sopher to teil us that the same man can do anything 

 else he may choose with the same horse i. e., after a 

 sufficient time has elapsed to coDvey hi? wishes, so as to 

 be understood by the animal. 



It has always been considered a most difficult task, 

 and a work of considerable time and patience, to make 

 a horse lie down, and lie still, by any process of training 

 except the one exhibited by Mr. llarey ; and although a 

 horse will not lie still while punished by undergoing a 

 surgical operation, I contend that the system is espe- 

 cially valuable to veterinary surgeons, as far superior to 

 the old plan of violently, and by the united strength of 

 four or five stalwart men, snatching the whole of the 

 horse's legs from under him, and bouncing him, like a 

 piece of timber, on to the ground, then kneeling on his 



