THE HORSE 



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Champion Douhlr Team, " So.mictimes " and "Always' 



duties to the animal are unfulfilled ! Chicago treatment of the animal by the An,L;lo-Saxon 

 is said to be the hell of horses, but ocular wit- races has done much to ameliorate liis conch- 

 nesses say that compared with St. Petersburj,^ tion all o\'er the ( ix'ilized wuiltl. 

 it is their paradise. 



The Russian peasant gives 

 soft names to his horses, but 

 often denies them food — per- 

 haps because he has so little 

 for himself. In the days of 

 serfdom the peasants (with 

 permission of their masters) 

 came in crowds to the capital 

 with their skeletons of horses, 

 to let them for saddle or har- 

 ness, and thus prolong their 

 own miserable lives and those 

 of their beasts. 



English grooms hold the 

 first rank for the care they 

 give to their animals. The 

 bandaging of the legs, the 

 rubbing of the muscles and 

 tendons with stimulants and tonics, the partic- Our readers ha\-e prf)babl)' heard of Y. S. 



ular method of cleaning (during which the Rarey, a native of Ohio, who became celebrated 

 groom makes a curious hissing noise with his about the year i860 by the gentleness \\ith 

 teeth and lips), the sponging of the backs, — which he conquered resti\'e and x'icious horses, 

 all this is of English origin and has been He went to England and made his first attempts 

 adopted by the other nations of Europe and by at Tattersall's, the well-known establishment 



where the most important sales of horses 

 and carriages were made. In a single dav 

 he was able to render tractable the most 

 vicious and uncontrollable animals. He 

 began with one which was terrible for its 

 ferocit}-. In less than one da\' the animal 

 followed him round the arena like a dog 

 and did everything that he ordered. Lord 

 Derby gave him a little Thoroughbred mare 

 so savage as to be useless, and the same 

 result was obtained. A white horse from 

 tlie royal stables, which no one had been 

 able t(.) master, became soft as wa.x in 

 Rarey's hands. Rare\'s fame being spread 

 abroad, he was called on to give representa- 

 tions of his method in the presence of the 

 queen and other dignitaries. Two duchesses 

 America. In England the horse, especially the took lessons from him, for which instruction he 

 Thoroughbred, is idolized by young and old, asked ^20 each. Afterwards he went to France, 

 by great and small ; this careful and intelligent where he displayed his art before the Emperor. 



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