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gone througli, but tlie colt being a game one, 

 kicked a hole through the partition, and 

 knocked some of the men down. After the 

 men had recovered themselves they began 

 asain, but with this difference, that two of them 

 got the colt's tail through the hole in the par- 

 tition, and hung on to it with might and main, 

 they being in security on the opposite side of 

 the partition to that on which the colt was. 

 Thinking it was not my business to interfere 

 with the owner's orders, I stood by and 

 watched this process for an hour and a half, 

 till at last the men being exhausted, and the 

 colt as game as ever, the owner asked my 

 opinion as to how the animal could be haltered, 

 on which I told him that if he would withdraw 

 his men I would halter him myself, which I 

 accordingly did in about a quarter of an hour. 



To proceed with the subject of this chapter : 

 the colt or filly (throughout this treatise I shall 

 assume that every animal to be broken-in is a 

 colt, for if I spoke of colts and fillies I should 

 only confuse myself as well as my readers) to 



