COERCION 



prompted by some unaccountable impulse to 

 follow a pack of hounds, and the beginner finds 

 himself voluntarily performing feats of activity 

 and daring, in accordance with the will of his 

 rider, which no coercion from the latter would 

 have induced him to attempt. Flushed with 

 success, and if fortunate enough to escape a fall, 

 confident in his lately-discovered powers, he finds 

 a new pleasure in their exercise, and, most 

 precious of qualities in a hunter, grows "fond of 

 jumping." 



The same result is to be attained at home, but 

 is far more gradual, requiring the exercise of 

 much care, patience, and perseverance. 



Nevertheless, when we consider the inconveni- 

 ence created by the vagaries of young horses in 

 the hunting- field, to hounds, sportsmen, ladies, 

 pedestrians, and their own riders, we must admit 

 that the Irish system is best, and that a colt, to 

 use the favourite expression, should have been 

 trained into "an accomplished lepper," before he 

 is asked to carry a sportsman through a run. 



Mr. Rarey, no doubt, thoroughly understood 

 the nature of the animal with which he had to 

 deal. His system was but a convenient applica- 

 tion of our principle, viz., Judicious coercion, so 

 employed that the brute obeys the man without 

 knowing why. When forced to the earth, and 

 compelled to remain there, apparently by the 

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