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analogous to Mr. Rarey's (although devoid of cruelty 

 and punishment), the necessity never arose for my putting 

 my plan in execution ; and I am quite satisfied that the 

 greatest brute that ever existed in the shape of a horse 

 may be made tractable and obedient without the use of 

 such means — ever bearing in mind this necessary caution, 

 which should be written in large letters over the loose box 

 or stall of every naturally bad-tempered horse : Naturam 

 expellas furcd, tamen usque recur fit. 



I will now only briefly take notice of Mr. Rarey's two 

 last chapters — " How to make a horse follow you, and 

 how to make him stand without holding," in which I am 

 sorry to find the too frequent use of the whip again thus 

 recommended : — " Every time you turn, touch him 

 slightly with the whip, to make him step close up to you, 

 and then caress him with your hand. He will soon learn 

 to hurry up to escape the whip ; and if he should stop and 

 turn from you, give him a few sharp cuts about the hind legs, 

 and he will soon turn his head towards you, when you 

 must always caress him. A few lessons of this kind will 

 make him run after you when he sees the motion of the 

 whip " ; which, if it means anything, means this : — ^that 

 the horse must be terrified into following his master. 

 Here again, as in many previous instances, Mr. 'Rarey's 

 ideas on horse-taming are totally at variance with my own ; 

 in short, taking his work from beginning to end, we differ 

 nearly toto coelo in regard to the breaking and management 

 of colts and horses. 



If my observations upon Mr. Rarey's system of break- 

 ing colts and subjugating refractory horses appear too 

 severe, I have only to say, that my sole object is, as it 

 ever has been, to save that most useful but much-abused 

 animal, the horse, from the infliction of greater cruelties 



