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OASES. 



method must not be used when the character is such that 

 there is inclination to bite the cheeks or lips, or when the 

 head is interfered with, as there is then an inclination, as 

 in the mustang nature, to strike, and the treatment will be 

 difficult to apply. In this case the result was that both 

 cheeks were badly bruised,* making him again very violent 

 until cured, when I 

 applied the Second 

 Method, subduing 

 him in about twenty 

 minutes. 



I afterward gave 

 exhibitions of his 

 good character in 

 the presence of Mr. 

 Henry Bergh, Esq.. 

 President of the So- 

 ciety for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals, and other well-known 

 gentlemen, when he was turned loose in the ring without 

 anything on him, and submitted to handling with the 

 docility of any gentle horse. This was one of the few 

 exceptional cases that the most patient and kind treatment 

 would have no effect upon. As an illustration, Dr. Braily, 

 formerly Chief Veterinary Surgeon of U. S. Cavalry, a man 

 of exceptionally large experience in handling horses, tried 

 for over an hour, by scratching the mane, etc., to get his 

 hand upon a certain part of the head, without being able to 

 do it. He had claimed that there was no living horse 

 whose head he could not in time by this method lay his 

 hand upon. I told him it could not be done in this case ; 

 if it could, I would give him one hundred dollars ; that the 

 only way it could be done was by proper subjective treat- 



* Proper treatment for such cases will be found iu Medical Department. 



FIG. 288. Wilkins Horse. 



