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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



Lord Dorchester brought him a horse named 

 Crusader, unruly from his birth and showing 

 his viciousness ev'ery day and every moment. 

 The animal seemed almost insane. He would 

 fall upon his knees in a fit of fury and dig up 

 the earth with his teeth, or he would fling him- 

 self against the sides of the stall, kicking and 

 screaming for a quarter of an hour at a time. 

 Often he would let no one enter his stall ; his 

 strength was so great that once he broke an 



Derby begged Rarey not to expose his life any 

 longer ; but the American persisted and ob- 

 tained the success we have stated. 



Rarey possessed, moreover, the necessary 

 gifts of patience, calmness, courage, and self- 

 possession, and his method was adapted, above 

 all, to the animal's inteUigence. He explained 

 his principles in a little treatise written by him- 

 self and published first in America and then in 

 England, where three hundred thousand copies 



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iron bar in two. In three hours Rarey calmed 

 the animal so that he allowed him, and also the 

 owner, to ride him, although no one until then 

 had been able to mount him. During the three 

 hours' training the vicious brute, with open 

 mouth and savage cries, had twice flung him- 

 self upon Rarey, who escaped by slipping 

 through a half-o]3ened door. Little by little the 

 horse grew calmer and allowed himself to be 

 fastened to a transversal log. This restraint, 

 hitherto unknown to him, maddened him at 

 first, and his fury was so violent that Lord 



were sold in three weeks. In it we see (as was 

 evident at his exhibitions) that he emploj^ed no 

 trick or artifice, but treated the horses naturally, 

 being very careful never to startle or frighten 

 or hurt them. 



Another horse breaker and trainer more or 

 less famous was Baucher. He used various 

 secret means ; he put into the horse's nostrils 

 oil, which gave out a strong smell of burnt 

 horn ; he made the animal inhale the sweat 

 under his arms, and he blew into his nose. 

 Possibly Baucher had faith in these means, but 



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