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than muscle. Not only have boys of eighty pounds 

 weight become successful horse-tamers in England, 

 but even English ladies have perfectly subdued and 

 reduced to calmness fiery blood-horses. Therefore, 

 in dealing with Mr. Rarey's plan we are not wasting 

 our time about a trick for conquering incurably 

 savage horses, but are elucidating the principles of 

 a universally applicable system for taming and train- 

 mg horses for man's use, with a perfection of docility 

 rarely found except in aged pet horses, and with a 

 rapidity heretofore quite unknown. 



John S. E-arey is about thirty years of age, of 

 middle height, and well-proportioned figure, wiry 

 and active rather than muscular — his complexion is 

 almost effeminately fair, with more color than is 

 usually found in those of his countrymen who live 

 in cities. He was a citizen of Groveport, Ohio, when 

 he began his successful mode of horse-taming. His 

 walk is remarkably light and springy, yet regular, 

 as he turns round his horse ; something between the 

 set-up of a soldier and the light step of a sportsman. 

 Altogether his appearance and manners are emi- 

 nently gentlemanly. Although a self-educated and 

 not a book-educated man, his conversation, when he 

 cares to talk, (for he is rather reserved,) always dis- 

 plays a good deal of thoughtful originality, relieved 

 by flashes of playful humor. 



Mr. Rarey's system of horse-taming will infallibly 

 supersede all others for both civil and mihtary pur- 

 poses, and his name will take rank among the great 

 social reformers of the nineteenth century. 



