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food which is gathered by animals is derived from the 

 animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdoms. It must contain 



him for a debt, till he had satisfied the natives of the land by a solemn 

 treaty and purchase. 



"The present performance of Rarey is brought before the public 

 by one enamoured of his system, if suck it may be called, by a fox- 

 hunting squire, a writer on horse subjects for the newspapers a school 

 not very much entertained by the public for this species of investiga- 

 tion. In the first place, we must seriously object to the very title, 

 which is rendering injustice to the horse, making him a sort of wild 

 beast that stands in need of being tamed. Instead of which, we hold 

 him, from his natural inoffensive disposition, to require nothing of the 

 sort, but has been most kindLy delivered to our hands by a merciful 

 Creator, neither wild nor misckievous, but only requiring a little gentle 

 breaking in, or education, without any punishing him, or injuring him, 

 to become the docile, faithful, laborious, ready helpmate of man, that 

 could be possibly desired. 



" His education^ we hold, should consist of gaining his friendship and 

 confidence by gentle measures, and not by deceiving him and punishing 

 him, by throwing him down and frightening him, and grievously sweat- 

 ing him, and accompanied with, all sorts of fears and apprehensions. 



"The most noble of dispositions, w r e know, may be subdued by 

 extreme punishment and severity, but is this the way to make a loving, 

 obedient slave, that should have pleasure ia giving satisfaction to all 

 reasonable demands, and, in return for it, receiving kindness and 

 rewards ? 



" Better works than this exist, and should have been consulted by 

 this writer for the newspapers, as, for instance, Beranger's second 

 edition On the Horse T copied into Rees' Cyclopedia, and again copied 

 in Clark's work On the Bits of Horses, which far transcends every 

 suggestion in this volume. Treachery of all kinds, we believe, to a 

 noble animal of this description, should be avoided, and the obtaining 

 his love and confidence should be our chief aim, by patient sedulous 

 measures, which it is not our business here to reiterate ; and as to 

 Beranger and some others, of whose labours we cannot suppose him 

 entirely ignorant, but of which there is not even a mention ; and, 

 indeed, as a system of general Horse-Breaking it is almost useless, and 

 inferior to works we already possess on the subject." 



