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CHAPTER XXIIL 



Scrutator's own System of Handling and Breaking Colts. — 

 Country Colt Breakers, — First Lessons with the Halter, the 

 Bit, and the Reins. — Cruel use of the Bearing-Reins in 

 ignorant Hands. — First Hours with the Saddle. — The use 

 of the Voice in the Management of Horses. 



To resume my own practice with regard to the 

 handhng and breaking of colts, with this dis- 

 claimer on my part of professing to teach anything 

 new to those acquainted with horsemanship. 



As I have before written, we must in this coun- 

 try divide colts, as we do boys, into two classes, 

 those which, from a home education, know some- 

 thing, and those which know nothing at all, from 

 having been allowed to roam at large in pastures 

 green without having felt the hand of man. The 

 know-nothings, therefore, ought to claim attention 

 first. 



These we will suppose to have had their liberty 



