THE BUCK AND THE KICK. 
It being difficult to obtain a horse who was sufficiently 
amenable to discipline as to buck and kick at the word 
of command, resort was had to a circus mule, who had 
undergone a regular course of instruction in those accom¬ 
plishments. Seriates 70 and 71 represent two different 
actions, arranged on one page to facilitate comparison. 
The first two lines give a very fair illustration of a buck, 
followed by a one-legged kick; the following two lines 
admirably realize the caprices of a high-kicker. Phase 4 
of the second series very faithfully reproduces in life a 
carved slab of a wild ass in the Assyrian department of 
the British Museum. 
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