Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-20
MISC L L L A n Y .
MR.. RAREY, THE AMERICAN HORSE
tanner.

MIX, HAREY, The AmEH1CAN NURSE.
tanner.
When the sportsman or the horseman, who
has studied the animal all his life, and knows
too well his freaks of temper and easily alarmed
ispositun-when such one is told that the
worst-tempered brute that ever was handled, or
the greatest savage that ever was put into a box,
can be conquered and quicted in five or ten min
utes-when simply by leaving with him, for
some such space of time an assuming young
man. all the vice is efiectually taken out of him
and when he hears, moreover, of there being
no perceptihle means by which this is accom-
plished but that the thing is merely "secrct'
When, we say, a sportsman reads or is told
of all this what in ninety whine times out of Il
hundred will he do? With pleasant smile
and slight shrug of the shoulders, he will most
likely answer at once that ut must be hum
bug Or if he does not say so, he is sure to
think so, which comes to very much the same
Now there is just one step beyond this. He
must exercise another of his senses before he
quite condemns the discovery BY this. thanks
to 1.-The Times" and other channels, he has no
doubt hedW good deal of the horse-tamer !;
but if our friend is practiced man, as we will
take him to be, he will 90 Il step further and see
him. He will Judge for himself. as many have
already. He will go something more than sccp-
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he will come away convinced. at least there is
a great deal in it. We state this as the general
impression left on all who have hitherto seen
the effects of Mr. Rareys system. and we give
it as our own. Ilorse-tamers and Whisperers
are, or have been, by no means unknown
amongst us and we walked into Mr.. Ander-
sons yard quite ready to assure ourselves that
we were going to witness some clever trick. or
some individual exhibition of personal power of
hand or eye, that might be as curious and amt
sing, perhaps, as a scene i'll the Circus, and that
would be ALL
We found the exhibitor young well-madc
American, just recognizable from the tone ofhis
voice as Statesman. in an inner yard in COM
pany with goodish- looking black horse In
one word, he was doing Just what he pleased
with this animal. And there stood Mr.. Ander-
son and Mr.. Rice ready to assure you that Il
week since they with all their knowledge of
their busneSS-George Rice with all his fine
temper and fine hands--could do nothing at all
with him. He had been sold, and returned as
FESTIVE and unmanageable and there was no
help for it but to take him back. He was one
of those sad brutes, that with all the look and
power of two or three hundred guinea horses,
sink down into street cabs sheery from the i'm
possibility of ever being able to trust them
Mr.. Rarey wanted patient, and here was one
only one quarter-of-an hours conversation with
the unreasonable creature; at the end of that
time the black horse was black only in color.
His nature was changed, and the devil fairly
gone out of him. We saw what we write We
saw this violent-tempered animal that had been,
stand quietly in the middle of the yard, with a
plain hard-and-sharp in his mouth, and the rein
hanging loose on his neck-and we saw the
American wheel Il heavy barrow straight up to
his head and round him. without the horse
ilinching in the least. Then the horse-tamer
cracked "A carriage whip over his head, and still
the animal stood as placidlv. and apparently. as
unconcerned as ever. Mr.. Rarey next proceed.
ed to mount him and here perhaps to a sports
nan was lhe most pleasing part of the whole
performance. With the .ein still loose on his
neck, the horse moved and turned, Just as thu
rider moved his hand. We have all seen
'wunde full pom Ill the Circus stop and twis,
round i'll obedience to The promptiugs of a toll
crahly well pointed whip. But there was moth
ing OF this sor, with Mr. Ijarey. There was nc
effort on his part and the.c was nothing anx.
ious or nervous in the look Of his horse. II
t, h. was SO calm, his eye steady and $,
much at case, ihat it was difficult to imagine h.
ever could have lccn the vicious obstinate brute
TOT many could speak to. The manner" of thu
horse gave one more the notion of an old fam
ily pony, not 50 much subdued. as won over b,
kind treatment and long usage You 90 OF
him 'any how" One old sportsman MOUNTED
the horse with his half cigar in his mouth ant
slid down over his tail. A week since the SAINT
horse would have kicked his brains out, coult
any man have been found fool-harcy enough t,
attempt such an act. Mr. Rarcv concluded thi,
demonstration of his power over the horse b,
taking him into a stall and lying down by hi.
side-knocking his hoofs together-pilowin.
his head on his quarters; with similar leats, no
quite so seemingly to look at, although all tend
ing to prove his complete subjugation of the an
imal.
The horse-tamer declares his means are sim