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at it, if clone for the first time, unless he has been 

 reared in thEit confidence with us that he never ex- 

 pects injury at our hands. This the colt brought up 

 wikl naturally does expect, and as naturally resists. 



Cows, with now and then an exception, are all tame : 

 even when we find one that is not, depend upon it 

 some extraordinary circiunstance either in her rearing 

 or after-usao-e has occasioned her to become other- 

 wise. The calf, on leaving the mother, is as tame 

 as herself, and would remain so if the same treatment 

 was continued : but if it is suffered to remain in a 

 pasture instead of being daily brought into intercourse 

 with man, it becomes wild. Probably, from having 

 been accustomed to follow the mother home, it still 

 wishes and attempts to do so. How is its wish to 

 continue on good terms with us rewarded ? It is 

 driven back with shouts, and, should it succeed in 

 joining the herd, its attempts at domestication are 

 probably repaid with a hedge-stake to prevent a 

 recurrence of them. Can we wonder if it afterwards 

 both fears and hates man? yet the moment the time 

 comes when this same animal is wanted for his use, 

 it is expected to stand meekly to be milked by perhaps 

 the very savage it has such just reason to dread : if it 

 does not, it is tied up, and probably the hedge-stake 

 again applied. Need we be surprised at seeing so 

 many of these animals with knobs on their horns or 

 a board across their faces ? I do not mean to say 

 this drive-about system is permitted to be practised 

 with valuable colts ; but, mutatis mutandis^ it is in 

 pretty general use with ordinary ones. No wonder, 

 then, breakers are wanted when this is the case. But 

 though none of this is allowed with the high-bred colt, 

 or any thing done to purposely frighten him, not one- 

 tenth part is done that ought to be done to render 



