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sary and barbarous punishment being inflicted on 

 the most vicious horse. 



To this humane new method succeeds a long 

 dissertation on ''Balking," which will probably 

 prove very serviceable to American teamsters, with 

 copious directions how to start and manage a 

 balking horse or a balking team, about which the 

 commonest British carter or waggoner knows quite 

 as much as Mr. Rarey. There is nothing save the 

 most common -place observations and instructions 

 under the two next heads or chapters : " How to 

 break a horse to harness," and "How to hitch a horse 

 in a sulky." Now at last I conclude we have ar- 

 rived at the grand secret — the wonderful discovery 

 in the modern act of horse-taming — " How to make 

 a horse lie down," for the possession of which our 

 unsuspecting countrymen have been mulcted, as I 

 am told, in the sum of twenty-five thousand 

 pounds or more. 



Now it is quite clear that the art of making a 

 horse lie down is neither a new discovery, nor any 

 novelty at all to many horsemen in this country. 

 " Then why," it has been said, and may be asked 

 again, by Mr. Rarey's supporters, " why has this 

 knowledge never been before comnmnicated to the 

 public ?" Simply because it was observed as a 

 family nostrum or trick by some, and by others 



