22 6 THE COACHING AGE. 



three plunges clear of the straw, and then threw him- 

 self down. 



' Satisfied now that he might be made to go, though 

 not by such means, I thought I would try another 

 element, which I had before seen applied with suc- 

 cess. After getting him up I had him taken to 

 the canal, where I found a barge just going to start 

 with two horses. Giving the bargeman half-a-crowa 

 to lend nie some draught-harness, with his permission 

 we put my horse in behind the other two, first taking 

 the precaution to have the barge moored off the quay 

 and clear of other craft. We then moved on, when 

 the brute threw himself about, first up in the air, 

 then down on his knees ; up again, then forward, 

 then back on his haunches. But the two fore-horses 

 went on, and, their traces acting upon the barge, did 

 not give him time to lie down ; and after two or three 

 attempts to baffle us, he rolled off the towing-path 

 into the canal. 



'Here, after two or three plunges, and being im- 

 mersed in water, the tackle holding good, he regained 

 his feet and the towing-path at the same time ; and 

 the other two horses keeping their places and their 

 pace, and the barge being in motion, there was nothing 

 left for him but to keep quietly on or put up with 

 another ducking. He chose the former, walked up to 

 his collar, ai)d took his share of draught for about two 



