. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). THE STEYEXS HORSE. iio Case 8.âGeneral Kn(1x Stalliox. This was a four-year-old black stallion, owned by Mr. Stevens, of Lancaster, N. 11.,
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). THE STEYEXS HORSE. iio Case 8.âGeneral Kn(1x Stalliox. This was a four-year-old black stallion, owned by Mr. Stevens, of Lancaster, N. 11., and is a case of so much in- terest that I will give the details. When at a small town in Vermont, forty miles from this point, a horse-breaker, who attended my lectures, wished to know whether I intended visiting Lancaster. Answering "Yes," he said, "You will get the worst horse there to handle you ever saw in your life. He will do everything mean a horse can do. The owner is a good horseman, but wishing to take no chances, he sent him here for me to break. I had him here six weeks, and succeeded in driv- ing him in harness, but could really do nothing at all with him. If he could do nothing else he would kick, lunge into the fence, or throw himself down. I was arrested twice for cruelty to him. I could have broken him, but did not have the time, so I sent him home. You will find him there, and I tell you he is a bad ; When I went to Lancaster the owner of this colt was pointed out to me. I walked up and invited him to join â the class. He rephed that he had no confidence whatever in me; that he had seen any munber of horse-breakers, etc., and knew all he wanted to know about horse-taming. I said to him :â " I believe, sir, you have a horse you cannot manage, and I can put you in the way of breaking ;. Sd'wii- 11. after being Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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