The Horse, as Comrade and Friend 



yard, or stable, so that the operation should 

 be limited to the actual corraUng. If he has 

 to be taken through a succession of fields to 

 the last next the straw yard, have all the gates 

 propped open. Take your men by a round- 

 about way to the far side of the horse without 

 attracting his attention, and then, in extended 

 order, begin your drive, which must be executed 

 in dead slow time. You and your men should 

 not walk in a straight line to the horse, but 

 obliquely, backwards and forwards. By and 

 by he will look up from his feeding and will 

 move away, and start feeding again in another 

 place nearer the gate. As the men come on, 

 he will move further away still nearer the 

 gate, and will begin to reahse that there is 

 pressure. This will put him on the alert for 

 danger, and he will stop feeding to watch 

 events. It is essential that he should be 

 induced to move away, which he will do 

 quietly if he is not excited. The oblique 

 movement of the men will make him believe 

 that they are not after him, more especially'- 

 if they are instructed not to look at him, but 

 to appear as if they were interested in looking 

 for something in the grass — half-crowns per- 

 haps. He wont like their presence and will 

 continue to move awaj?-, and in course of time 

 will discover the open gate and walk through 

 it. 



If the men had been walking direct on him, 



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