294 WHAT MR. PvAREY HAS DONE. 



acquainted with liis secret, if such it can be called, 

 of " horse-taming." 



But are there not hundreds — I may say thou- 

 sands — of men in this country, horse-breakers, 

 colt operators, and such like, who know that horses 

 may be so subdued by being thrown down, or 

 forced to lie down and exhausted, as to allow a 

 man to dance a hornpipe on their ribs ? And is 

 not the practice of strapping up the foreleg of a 

 vicious horse by grooms nearly as old as the hills ? 

 Without wishing in any degree to detract from the 

 merits of Mr. Rarey's system, whatever it may be, I 

 must be allowed to say, that the idea of an American 

 coming forth to give the English nation lessons in 

 horsemanship or horse-taming reminds me of my 

 old friend Codrington's reply to a youth intent on 

 instructing him in the " Noble Science,'' " Teach 

 your grandmotlier to suc^ ^gg^'' 



Still, Mr. Rarey has done great service in bring- 

 ing thip^ subject prominently forward before the 

 British pubhc in these (as to the management of 

 horses) degenerate times. 



** Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures, 

 Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta, fidelibus ;" 



and John Bull is proverbially a sight-seeing, 

 open-mouthed animal, with a vast amount of 



