LADY'S SEAT ON 111
SIDE SADDLE, OFFSIDE VIEW OF 135
CURB, OR HARD AND SHARP 136
PLAIN SNAFFLE 137
PELHAM 138
HANOVERIAN 139
SITZ, OR HUNTSMAN'S BATH 232
HOT-AIR OR INDIAN BATH 235

THE
ART OF TAMING HORSES.

CHAPTER I.

Mr. Rarey's pamphlet first published in Ohio.--Experience of old
system.--Compiled and invented new.--Tying up the fore-leg known
many years ago, _see_ Stamford Almanack.--Forgotten and not
valued.--Reference to Captain Nolan's and Colonel Greenwood's works
on horsemanship.--Dick Christian missed the discovery.--Baucher's
plan of laying down a horse explained.--Mademoiselle Isabel's
whip-and-spur plan.--Account of the Irish whisperer Dan
Sullivan.--Usual modes of taming vicious
horses.--Starving.--Physic.--Sleepless nights.--Bleeding.--Biting
the ear.--Story of Kentish coachman.--The Ellis system.--Value of
the Rarey system as compared with that of ordinary
horse-tamers.--Systems of Australia and Arabia compared.--The South
American plan explained.--A French plan.--Grisone the Neapolitan's
advice.--The discovery of Mr. Rarey by Mr. Goodenough.--Visit to
Canada.--To England.--Lord Alfred Paget.--Sir Richard
Airey.--System made known to them.--To Mr. Jos. Anderson.--Messrs.
Tattersall.--Sir Matthew Ridley's black horse tamed.--Subscription
list of 500 opened.--Stafford tamed.--Description of.--Teaching
commenced with Lords Palmerston, Granville, &c.--Cruiser
tamed.--History of.--Enthusiastic crowd at Cruiser
exhibition.--System approved by the Earl of Jersey and Sir Tatton
Sykes.--Close of first subscription list.--Anecdote of Mr. Gurney's
colt.--Personal sketch of Mr. Rarey.

Mr. Rarey is a farmer from Ohio, in the United States. Five years ago he
wrote the little book which forms the _text_ of the following complete
account of his system, with pictorial illustrations, which are
essential for explaining the means he now employs for subduing the most
refractory animals. Without these explanations, it