. 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). HISTOiaCAL FACTS. 37o break them. One, an eight-year-old colt, belonging to Squire West, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio (a point twelve miles south o
. 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). HISTOiaCAL FACTS. 37o break them. One, an eight-year-old colt, belonging to Squire West, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio (a point twelve miles south of Columbus, on the pike), was especially vicious. This colt submitted to my treatment perfectly in less than an hour. I now went to Groveport to see Cruiser, and spent two hours studying him as he stood in his paddock. I found him a medium-sized, fine-grained horse. His head was well proportioned, wide and full between the eyes, which, though not large, were well set out on his head. The eyelids were thin, and the distance from eyes to ears noticeably Fig. '2ri3.—As the horse usu-ally falls by this method. The ears were exceedingly fine, short, and pointed, and set close together, indicating, like the other parts, great sensi- bility and courage, and, if excited, great capacity for pro- longed resistance. (I give a sketch of his head, drawn un- der my direction from memory, by J. C. Beard of New York. It is not exactly the impression I had in my mind, but it is as near it as the eminent artist could catch from my description.) Though susceptible of being easily man- aged when subjected to proper treatment, such a horse I knew I could not make gentle and hold him so by the treat- ment claimed to have been jnacticed upon him. And when. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Magner, D. (Denni
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