Show MUST KNOW THEIR TRADE Australian Horsebrecikers Artists in Their Business In Australia there are thousands of horsebreakers and It is by no means a despised but often a highly paid profession Two or more reside in almost al-most every town and village on the continent and many big squatting cattle cat-tle stations maintain one year In andy and-y ar out to train the horses in the peculiar pe-culiar fashion required for the station work mustering yarding and so forth i The Australian horsebreakers methods meth-ods of breaking in a horse would make the ordinary English horse trainer train-er stare The term breaking is indeed avery lie very proper one as will presently perceived Ills custom and I would emphasize the fact thai the practice S T am about to outline is not only invariable in-variable but It is the one and only method of procedure employed by bush horsebreakers throughout the length and breadth oC the continent is as follows fol-lows A docn young colts or flllies I sometimes less sometimes more are driven to a stock yard This stockyard stock-yard is a small paddock about 100 toot square Inclosed with a stout post and rail fence eight or ten feet high The horsebreaker singles out one from the herd skillfully casts a running noose I at the end of a stout rope over its head and then he and his assistants I haul quickly on the rope bringing presently pres-ently the halfstrangled and desperately desper-ately frightened colt to earth The horsobreaker resigning the rope to his companion then darts forward and sjts upon the head of the prostrate wildly kicking animal The coll to blinded Immediately resigns himself for a lime to fate and lien still The assistants approach and list ropIng his legs bind a strong steel framed saddle to his hack with girths a stout leathci surcingle crupper and breast plate lifting his body by main force when I hey need to pass the straps and girth around him Jhls done the horsebreaker rises The colt < tiles lo get up ton hut cannot for his legs are securely triced I together While he lies there struggling mud a cruel thick steel snafllc hit Is thrust Into his mouth and a brIdle drawn over hIs head The horsebreaker then grasps the reins In one hand and standIng stand-Ing astride of the panicstricken hrnle coolly cuts the cords confining his limbs The colt feeling himself free struggles strug-gles afoot but lie has now a mysterious burden on ills hack At first he cannot can-not understand but stands sjupidly still trembling like a leaf I f shuddering wllh mortal Tear Next second the cruel spurs gore his sides He springs forward snorting and astounded A rlwhldc whip then I descends upon his 1 ribs and always the spurs bite blood The colt a wild unbroken hotblooded thing still terrified darts hither and thither among lie 1 startled herd striving striv-ing I vainly 1 to escape But when his head is I wrenched this way and that hy the iron torture In his mouth he commences lo understand and to associate asso-ciate the bin den on his hack with the agpny he endures Ills temper rises Of n sudden he stands slock still The spurs bite the I whip I slings I I still he does not move hut ills ears fall ominously omin-ously back The homebreaker has waited for this moment With a reckless laugh he sets his knees hard against the great kneepads knee-pads of the saddle and waits his body swaying like a reed Suddenly the colt springs Into the nil arching his hack as he rises He comes down on his forefeet nnd lashes viciously out with his hind leg 1 The i breaker sits like a rock using whip and spur like an engine and laughing like a deil The colt now mad with rage plunges rears swings round and round then t finding all his efforts fruitless commences com-mences to I buck In earnest The hoisehroaker hi now seen at his best His body swaying with the movement of the beast his Jaws act tight ills eyes shining like stars ho never leaves his saddle the fragment of an inch hut 1 rides like a centaur or god a st grim smile upon his face The exhibition is magnificent and never nev-er palls The spectators always numerous nu-merous his very assistants hrciik out into a storm of plaudits Ton minutes later the colt exhausted with his terrible ter-rible exertions covered with sweat and foam his sides streaming blood gives up the struggle He Is beaten and he knows it His eye a moment ago so wildly gleaming is now dull and lifeless life-less He stands dejected quivering but still Tliu horsebreaker vaults out of the saddle His assistants rush forward The colt with hanging head and reeking reek-ing flanks tamely permits them to unharness him and he then staggers I off his first hitler I lesson of mans power pow-er overshadowing his soul Five minutes I later the horsebreaker Is mounted on another beast and so the game goes on |