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EDUCATING HORSES. 



" 'Tis Education makes us all." — Zara. 



That the term Education may appear misapplied, or 

 at all events inappropriate, as regards horses, I am 

 quite aware — it is for this very reason I have adopted 

 it, hoping by so doing to awaken ideas on the subject 

 somewhat at variance with the general term of 

 breaking horses. 



If horses were, what Wombwell's showman assures 

 us the laughing hyaena zs, " a hanimal untameahle by 

 man," we may take great credit to ourselves when we 

 can say, as he does, notwithstanding the "hanimal 

 being ?^wtameable, this one you see is parfectly tame." 

 Now to show "the most woraciousest beast in the 

 forest, wot entices the young children into the Avoods 

 by his cries and then dewours them," as he says," par- 

 fectly tame," does credit to the tamer; but horses are 

 neither untameahle, difficult to tame, nor "woracious" 

 (in a general way) : so I consider the term educating 

 implies the mode of treatment required by most 

 young horses better than the hackneyed one of ^r^<2/^w^; 

 for we must always annex the ideas of force and 

 violence to the latter term, and in nineteen cases in 

 twenty neither the one nor the other is required, or 

 should be used, towards colts. 



The system of education advocated and described 

 by friend Jean Jacques Rousseau as very proper for 

 his elhve might lead us to imagine the Island of Utopia 



