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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
gradually increase the weight until he balances himself on the stirrup. 
If the colt is uneasy or fearful, he should be spoken kindly to and pat- 
ted, or a mouthful of grain be given to him ; but if he offers serious 
resistance, the lessons must terminate for that day. He may probably 
be in better humor on the morrow. 
When the rider has balanced himself for a minute or two, he may 
gently throw his leg over and quietly seat himself in the saddle. The 
breaker will then lead the animal round the ring, the rider sitting per- 
fectly still. After a few minutes he will take the reins and handle them 
as gently as possible, and guide the horse by the pressure of them, pat- 
ting him frequently, and especially when he thinks of dismounting; 
and, after having dismounted, offering him a little grain or green feed. 
The use of the rein in checking him, and of the pressure of the leg and 
the touch of the heel in quickening his pace, will soon be taught, and his 
education will be nearly completed. 
Kindness united with Firmness. — The horse having thus far submitted 
himself to the breaker, these pattings and rewards must be gradually 
diminished, and implicit obedience mildly but firmly enforced. Sever- 
ity will not often be necessary. In the great majority of cases it will 
be altogether uncalled for : but should the animal in a moment of way- 
wardness dispute the command of the breaker, he must at once bo 
taught that he is the slave of man, and that we have the power, by 
other means than those of kindness, to bend him to our will. The 
education of the horse should be that of the child. Pleasure is as 
much as possible associated with the early lessons, but firmness, or if 
need be, coercion, must establish the habit of obedience. Tyranny and 
cruelty will more speedily in the horse than even in the child, provoke 
the wish to disobey and, on every practicable occasion, the resistance 
to command. The restive and vicious horse is, in ninety-nine cases out 
of a hundred, made so by ill-usage and not by nature. None but those 
who will take the trouble to make the experiment are aware how abso- 
lute a command the due admixture of firmness and kindness will soon 
give us over any horse. 
THE ART OF HORSE-TAMING, AS PRACTICBD DY WILLIAM AND 
JOHN S. RAREY. 
The great success which has attended the system of training horses, 
as practiced by the Rarey brothers, induces us to publish their system ; 
and to illustrate it with aj propriatc engravings.* Their success is 
certainly wonderful. The system which they follow is, at once humane, 
rational and philosophical ; and we earnestly commend its adoption to 
all who manage horses not only, but all the other domestic animals. 
As evidence of Mr. Rarey’s success in England, we copy the follow- 
ing instances from the London Review. 
* For the illustrations of the “ Rarey system,” we are under obligations to the 
Rural New- Yorlcer, aud which it gives us pleasure to commend to the attention of 
our readers, as one of the most valuable family and agricultural journals published 
in this country. It has a wide circulation and well deserves it. 
