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allaying his fears and distrust; thus at once raising disgust and 
hatred as barriers between master and servant. It is thus with the 
unfortunate negro torn from his family on the coast of Guinea, 
and thus with the horse taken from his native pasturage. The first 
suffers from unfeeling avarice on his voyage to final slavery; the 
latter from ignorance and brutality in him who undertakes to ren¬ 
der him docile for the masters he is destined to serve. Brutality 
and unmerited ill-usage will always produce in man a desire of 
revenge, which his better judgment teaches him to conceal, but 
which, like the smothered flame, will burst out at the fitting mo¬ 
ment. Fear is the first feeling of the captured animal; ill usage 
produces hate, and hate produces at first resistance; and if this is 
conquered, leaves vice and ferocity of disposition, that is also ex¬ 
hibited on every opportunity that offers. Whereas, different— 
that is, proper—treatment would have rendered him a willing, 
cheerful, and valuable servant in our pursuits of business or amuse¬ 
ment. 
In these days of monster meetings, monster sweeps, and 
monster trains, few establishments would be of greater utility than 
a monster breaking-school for young horses, where all the breakers 
should be men of superior sense, if not of education, and the head 
or heads of the establishment persons of still higher attributes. 
The thing on a large scale could be done cheaper than it is by a 
common colt-breaker; and, instead of having a promising colt 
ruined by an ignorant savage, we should be certain of his being 
placed in the hands of a recognised man of ability, patience, and 
good temper, and he under the direction of a man of education. 
I am aware there are numerous places where young or old horses 
can be sent to be broken as colts, or as horses broken to harness ; 
and doubtless many of these places are owned by respectable and 
experienced men, but they are by no means so in a general way. 
Now, if some properly organized large establishment was set on foot, 
we will say by a company, or one person of large means, where 
none but competent persons would be taken, we should be as certain 
of horses being properly attended to, as we are that a boy will be 
so at Eton, Oxford, Cambridge, Harrow, or Rugby—a confidence 
in no way to be universally placed on minor schools. For the 
master of an ordinary school may take any lout or savage of an 
usher that he pleases, because he gets him at a low salary. Such 
a man would never get his foot into any of the colleges or schools 
mentioned. So there are thousands of veterinary surgeons, and 
many of those men quite worthy of confidence, both as regards 
ability and integrity ; but we know that the head ol a veterinary 
college must know his business, or he would not get there, nor 
would he be continued if even he did. He must also have con- 
