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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 grandmother to suck eggs." 



Still, Mr. Rarey has done great service in bringing this 

 subject prominently forward before the British public 

 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 credulity in his composi- 

 tion. 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 exhibition in London 

 or elsewhere, as a wild animal reclaimed from a state of 

 nature, crowds rush to behold the wonderful transforma- 

 tion of a lion into a lamb. And then, to crown all, the 

 zebra is introduced 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 stem resistance." 



Here, then, it was evident that the much-boasted 

 suaviter in modo course had been abandoned, and the 

 fortiter in re adopted ; in other words, that the poor brute 

 had been severely handled. This animal has generally 



