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credulity in his composition. Now were I to 

 write for a twelvemonth on the management of 

 horses, and show how foals are to be treated, 

 managed, and broken until they had broken knees, 

 my readers, after perusing these pages, would lay 

 down the volume and think nothing more about 

 it ; but when a Cruiser is advertised for public ex- 

 hibition in London or elsewhere, as a wild animal 

 reclaimed from a state of nature, crowds rush to 

 behold the wonderful transformation of a lion into 

 a lamb. And then, to crown all, the zebra is in- 

 troduced as perfectly subdued, with these remarks 

 in the " Daily News" — " But there were evidences 

 on his beautiful skin that the struggle between the 

 steed and his master had been fierce." Again — 

 *' This happy result was not brought about without 

 a severe struggle ; there were marks yesterday on 

 the beautiful hide that indicated a stern resistance." 

 Here, then, it was evident that the much- 

 boasted siiaviier in 7nodo course had been aban- 

 doned, and the fortiter in re adopted ; in other 

 words, that the poor brute had been severely 

 handled. This animal has generally been consi- 

 dered as ungovernable and irreclaimable by man, 

 which, by the way, is all sheer nonsense, for, bar- 

 ring a few individuals exhibited in menageries, 

 caught wild from their native plains, we have had 



