326 STABLING A COLT. 



nine horse-breakers or grooms out of a hundred 

 have adopted this course from time immemorial, as 

 the most easy and sensible plan of getting a colt 

 into a stable, and I believe no man' of common 

 understanding would think of running after and 

 trying to frighten the colt by shouting or raising 

 his arms. We are then instructed, " As soon as 

 he is in, remove the quiet horse and shut the door." 

 Most people in this country would have sufficient 

 sense to shut the door first, lest the colt might 

 feel disposed to walk out again sans ceremonie, 

 and remove the quiet horse afterwards y for John 

 Bull knows tolerably well that old saying about 

 one bird in the hand being worth tioo in the bush ; 

 and when he gets hold of a wild horse, or any 

 wild animal, he takes pretty good care to place his 

 prize in a place of security, from which there is no 

 exit through door or window. 



Mr. Rarey proceeds next to inform us, '' This 

 will be his (the colt's) first notion of confinement, 

 not knowing hoio he got into such a places nor how 

 to get out of it'' To this condemnatory reflection 

 on the colt's intellect I must demur, for although 

 in Mr. Uarey's supposition " the horse has never 

 studied anatomy," I cannot concede that any 

 horse is such an ass as not to know his wag out of 

 a stable, although it may puzzle his brains^ as well 



