82 SYSTEM FOR TRAINING CAVALRY HORSES. 



abstained from tlie subject altogether had not many 

 people expressed a desire to become acquainted with 

 the theory for thus showing what an intelligent animal 

 the horse really is — a theory which as yet had never 

 been made public. 



Few people take to this sort of work, and yet it is 

 not without merit, when carried so far as to enable 

 lis to see into the animal's thoughts, and control his 

 every movement by a mere gesture. 



Every trainer of horses should devote himself to it 

 sometimes. It is by no means useless in the profes- 

 sion ne follows, and it is an amusing and instructive 

 pastime when not carried too far. 



This article will also have this advantage, that it 

 will take from the mountebank the sort of superiority 

 assumed over " school riders," whilst those antics were 

 supposed to have been produced by means almost 

 miraculous or supernatural, whereas they require less 

 science and practice than is necessary to break in a 

 horse in the most commonplace way. 



