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brute in human shape could devise. A merciful man is 

 merciful to his beast, and these lines of Pope's may be 

 taken in an extended meaning — 



Teach me to feel another's woe. 



To hide the fault I see ; 

 That mercy I to others show, 



That mercy show to me. 



I must confess my thorough disgust at the combination 

 of cruelty and twaddle about gentling horses mixed up 

 together in these pages, and have scarcely patience to 

 proceed further ; but I trust that in this country we have 

 sufficient good sense, as well as proper feeling, to prevent 

 such unnecessary 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 commonplace 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 arrived at the 

 grand secret — the wonderful discovery in the modem 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 



