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PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



FIG. 8. One of the most Vicious Horses 

 ever Subdued by the Author. 



the horse, or in breaking up and 

 overcoming bad habits when 

 formed, must be in proportion to 

 the degree to which the efforts can 

 be intelligently addressed to the 

 line of these instincts, holding pas- 

 sive, combating, or overcoming 

 them while addressing the under- 

 standing, without exciting his 

 fears or resistance ; and it is ab- 

 solutely imperative that in his 

 education these conditions should 

 not be disregarded. 



Another point : a horse may be 

 moved to intense excitement and 

 extreme resistance by even a mo- 

 mentary impression of fear, without any contact with or cause for 

 feeling direct physical pain ; and again, in like manner, when prop- 

 erly treated, such fear may be overcome without resorting to treat- 

 ment that would cause the least physical pain or injury. 



Another important feature for consideration is the wonderful 

 adaptation in the various domestic animals, not only to the several 



wants and requirements of 

 man, but to the sections of 

 the world in which we find 

 them. Thus, for example, 

 the Esquimau has not only a 

 dog, but one peculiarly fitted 

 by nature to his especial 

 wants, acting not only as a 

 fisherman and a hunter, but as 

 a beast of burden, being in 

 fact the only animal that 

 could live and be of any use 

 to him so far- north; A little 

 farther south, the Laplander 

 has the reindeer, that lives 



on the moss peculiar to those regions, providing both sustenance 

 and clothing for him, as well as being the very best means of trav- 

 eling over those dreary, frozen plains. The Peruvians have the 

 llama for carrying burdens over the Andes. The Arabs have the 

 camel for their peculiar want, that of traveling over the arid, sandy 



FIG. 9. Nervous, Excitable Horse. 



