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ON THE EDUCATION OF THE HORSE. 
are both alike discovered and confounded by the superior 
sense of the creature they are mounted upon, who is equally 
spoiled by both, though in different ways. The coward, by 
suffering the animal to have his own way, not only confirms him 
in his bad habits, but creates new ones in him; and the madman, 
by false and violent motions, drives the horse, through despair, 
into every bad and vicious trick that rage can suggest, making a 
creature, that is naturally benevolent, restive, frightened, and 
vicious. 
With horses of great spirit and mettle, recourse is sometimes 
had to depriving them of their proper allowance of food and 
water, in order to subjugate them to the will of the breaker. 
None but cowards will have resort to such a method: a dull 
and sluggish animal will endure this treatment; but a spirited 
and generous beast, whose opposition arises from fear , and not 
from vice , is by these means oftentimes transformed into a mis¬ 
chievous and dangerous animal. 
There are many instances on record of horses recollecting in¬ 
juries, and their attempts to revenge them. “ In 1734, the horse 
of a nobleman of Ireland ran at a man, seized him with his teeth 
by the arm, which he broke; he then threw him down, and lay 
upon him. Every effort to get him off proving unavailing, they 
were forced to shoot him. The reason assigned for this ferocity 
was, that he had been castrated by this man some time before, 
which the animal seems to have remembered.” 
A singular anecdote of determined revenge, from the recollec¬ 
tion of injuries on the part of a horse, and an attempt to revenge 
them, is related in the <( Younger Son.” An Arab horse, which 
had been purchased by the colonel of the regiment at a great 
price, on first entering the service was quiet and tractable , but 
from bad management became vicious and violent. One of the 
soldiers undertook to tame him , or kill him. He tried in vain to 
bring down his mettle by hard work , deprivation of food , and 
severe punishments . This plan only rendered him more furious 
and watchful, for the animal, it appears, watched with wonderful 
cunning, ever afterwards, every occasion of kicking and biting 
him. To no other person did he shew this spirit of animosity. 
At one time he got hold of the soldier by the back, and lifted 
him into the manger, when, had he not obtained speedy’assist¬ 
ance, he must have been killed. Whenever he rode him, he 
used every artifice to throw him, which he had never been able 
to achieve but once; when, as the soldier was lying doubled up, 
he broke his arm and leg; then, after going a short distance, he 
stopped, and wheeled round to renew the blow. The man with 
