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au contraire, il salt mettre ranimal en confiance, 

 la bonne entente s'etablira promptement." It 

 certainly seems that, if a horse in his years of 

 discretion, or rather maturity, and of confirmed 

 viciousness, can be tamed so readily by a resolute 

 but gentle master, there ought to be little or 

 no difficulty in training him up during foalhood, 

 like Captain Cuttle's fig-tree, in the way he 

 should go, so that when he is old he would not 

 depart from it.' 



