Original sentence: Fortunately, Rarey's entire book is available on-line: [ (click here)].John Solomon Rarey, in his book The Complete Horse Tamer quotes from an earlier writer in a section called "Powell's Management of Wild Horses," and gives extremely detailed and considerate instructions on how to secure the willing agreement of the horse to being ridden.Once this basic trust is established, it requires only tact and patience to let the horse understand, by gradually accustoming it to bearing greater and greater portions of the weight of its human friend, that no harm will come to it through letting itself be ridden.The discussion is too long and detailed to be summarized here, and doing so would deprive the reader of the opportunity of savoring the original discussion.The horse needs to learn that the presence of a human rider is not the same as the springing of a lion or tiger onto its back