CHAPTER III. 



SPECIAL FORMS OF RESTITEXESS. ' 



Ix the preceeding chapter the general method of treat- 

 ing restiveness has been sketched in outline ; what is 

 there put forward will be found applicable to nearly 

 all cases, and also suffice for the cure of most forms (^f 

 disobedience. There are, however, some others which, 

 in addition, require special methods of treatment, espe- 

 cially when they have become inveterate ; and these 

 are — bolting and running away, bucking or plunging, 

 rearing, and kicking. 



Bolting. — The first step to be taken is to ascertain 

 wluj the horse bolts. A nervous and excitable tem- 

 perament is sometimes the cause, and the only remedy 

 will be quiet and judicious treatment. Much more fre- 

 quently, however, bolting is resorted to by horses that 

 have some physical defect or peculiarity of conforma- 

 tion, as a means of avoiding what gives them great pain ; 

 in fact, it is frequently rather an effort of despair than 

 anything else, and an evidence that something has been 

 demanded of the animal that was beyond its strength. 



Fig. 7 show the heads and necks of two runaway 

 horses; in the one case the animal's nose is poked 

 straight out — in the other, the chin comes back so as 

 nearly to toujh the breast; in both it escapes alto- 



