( n6 ) 



horfes or bulls by any means. I do not think 

 there is any occafion to apply any thing but 

 greafe, and that only to aged aninaals. 



SECTION LXI. 



Breaking of young horfes ^ i^c, 



I DO not know any thing more mifundcr- 

 flood than the breaking of horfes. This is 

 generally done by fome idle drunken fellow, 

 who, if he had ever fo quiet a horfc to ride, 

 would frequently be fo intoxicated as to fall 

 from him feveral times in a week's riding; and 

 ' after he is able to recover himfelf and get upon 

 his feec, he will fall to beating the horfe in the 

 moft barbarous manner; a treatment he never 

 lifter forgets. 



In general, as foon as the horfe is haltered, 

 he is tied to a tree and buffeted over the head 

 with a hat, which he ever after dreads fo much^ 

 that if any one meets you on the road, and takes 

 off" his hat, the horfe fuppofes he is going to be 

 buffeted, and jumps away. The next thing is 

 to tie a firing round his lifk, which tickles him 



fo 



