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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 1 1 Browse Search
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Rarey and a Mustang mare. --In New York on Saturday evening, Mr. Rarey, the horse tamer, delivered another lecture, and, during the evening exhibited a MustangMr. Rarey, the horse tamer, delivered another lecture, and, during the evening exhibited a Mustang mare. When brought in she took a survey of the house, and then as Rarey approached in front, rose on her hind legs, and quick as lightning struck at him with her fRarey approached in front, rose on her hind legs, and quick as lightning struck at him with her fore feet. For several minutes she thus met his every advance, and showed a desperate malice, and agility of the most extraordinary nature. The audience shuddered with apprehension lest Mr. Rarey might be killed, and breathed freer as he escaped unharmed. It was really a dangerous thing to take up the leg of such an animal, and all of Mr. Rarey's motions were made in the most deliberate and cautious manner. The mare finally, in striking out, caught her left fore foot in the bridle, and fell to her knees. When she rose, Mr. Rarey by an adroit motion managed to get her foot in his hand, and holding it gently, he had the strap buckled and the leg conf
"master of the situation," and to hold myself erect, and look as much at ease as possible. I am sure I cut as sorry a figure as poor John Gilpin did when he set out on his "sentimental tour," to the astonishment of all the village. We capered along at rather a slow pace at first, mostly through fields and woods, down declivities and over streams, where sometimes the animal I rode would persistently refuse to stir a step until it had slaked its thirst, notwithstanding all the coaxings, a la Rarey, and sundry kicks in the side which it received. Sometimes as I passed stray groups of citizen soldiers, I fancied that they took particular notice of my awkward horsemanship; but I consoled myself by the reflection that they were but novices in military experience, as I was in the new art to which I aspired. Col. Chisholm finally apprised me that we were in close proximity to the battle- field — a fact, indeed, easily perceptible from the intolerable effluvia which greeted my nostrils
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