If the Houyhnhnms should ever catch me, and, finding me particularly vicious and unmanageable, send a man-tamer to Rareyfy me, I'll tell you what drugs he would have to take and how he would have to use them.

Imagine yourself reading a number of the Houyhnhnm Gazette, giving an account of such an experiment.
"MAN-TAMING EXTRAORDINARY.
"THE soft-hoofed semi-quadruped recently captured was subjected to the art of our distinguished man-tamer in presence of a numerous assembly.

The animal was led in by two stout ponies, closely confined by straps to prevent his sudden and dangerous tricks of shoulder-hitting and foot-striking.

His countenance expressed the utmost degree of ferocity and cunning.
"The operator took a handful of BUDDING LILAC-LEAVES, and crushing them slightly between his hoofs, so as to bring out their peculiar fragrance, fastened them to the end of a long pole and held them towards the creature.

Its expression changed in an instant,--it drew in their fragrance eagerly, and attempted to seize them with its soft split hoofs.