The Horse, as Comrade and Friend 



you will be able to rub him on the neck quite 

 hard. Go through it all again two or three 

 times, so that he is quite used to seeing the whip 

 and being rubbed by it on the face, cheek and 

 neck. Do it on the other side, progressing 

 just as gradually. Now take the hay in one 

 hand and the whip in the other, and, slowly 

 and gently, go through the process with the 

 whip in full sight, every movement being dead 

 slow. Turn the whip round so that you present 

 the flexible end to him, repeating the process, 

 first with one hand and then with the other. 

 By this time he will have ceased to make any 

 objection to being rubbed by the whip, and you 

 can gradually extend the range of operations 

 to his shoulders, wither, and chest. Then 

 while you do this begin to talk to him cheerily 

 and watch his eyes and the play of his ears. 

 With experience, if you watch both, you can 

 almost tell what a horse is thinking of. 



Next day, after tieing up all the dogs, in a 

 sort of House-that-Jack-Built progression go 

 through the whole thing again, from the very 

 beginning. The horse's strongest point is his 

 memory, and he will know quite well what is 

 coming and will raise little if any objection. 

 In fact, by this time, his confidence in you 

 will have so increased that you can go to 

 work more boldly with the whip-rubbing part. 

 He will have got to like it, and, by holding 

 the hay a bit back, he will come much closer 



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