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this respect, is possessed of a kind of wild fear of man 

 (in a natural state), that must be overcome before we 

 can successfully proceed to learn him anything else. 

 This the Mexicans, as well as the Indians, accomplish in 

 their way with the lasso, in catching them wild, by de- 

 coying and riding up to a herd of them, and throwing it 

 over the head of one (around the neck of the animal), 

 and then follow him in the chase until he is choked 

 down. After this he is not hurt, but caressed and talked 

 to, when he is hampered and led to the camp without 

 further trouble, where he soon learns to love and obey 

 his master. 



" Make my breast, 

 Transparent as pure crystal, that the world jealous 

 Of me may see the foulest thought my heart 



Doth hold." 



Some thirty years ago, while experimenting with a 

 balky horse that had refused to pull, having some dis- 

 tance to travel, and night being near, after other means 

 (that we were then acquainted with) had failed to make 

 him pull, as trying to lead him by holding a handfull of 

 oats or hay before his nose, getting on his back and try- 

 ing to ride him, whistling, changing drivers, and whip- 

 ping, &c., for these things had sometimes caused him to 

 , pull, but being of no use to us now, I availed myself of the 

 expedient of taking a large rope halter, giving it a slip 

 noose round his neck, and then hitched another team to 

 the other end of the rope, by which means he was drawn 

 some twenty rods. Some of the way he was on his feet 

 and the remainder on his side; after which he pulled 

 well for a long time. And whenever he refused to pull 



