The Horse, as Comrade and Friend 



while, for he is sizing up in his own mind breed, 

 height and sex. More discoveries have to be 

 made and attended to, and when these have 

 ceased to attract, back he will come to you 

 with the obvious question " What about those 

 oats ? " And the job is done. 



Is all this trouble worth while ? Most 

 assuredly. It is aU training. It has been a 

 great experience to him, for he has come in of 

 his own free wiU. For love of you and of oats, 

 he has done violence to all his hereditary in- 

 stincts, and has so increased his personal 

 confidence in you that on another, and, may 

 be, an even more terrifying occasion, he will 

 display even less hesitation in following where 

 you go. 



The practical result is that you have got 

 him into the stable, not only without any 

 harm to his nerves, but with a quieting 

 effect upon them, which wiU prove an asset of 

 value in the future. Give him water and a 

 feed, and let him stop there. 



In the stable you have to put your horse, 

 which up to now you have handled yourself 

 exclusively, in the care of your groom, and 

 here is your great difficulty. It is a much 

 easier thing to train a horse to do what you 

 want him to do, than to train the usual EngUsh 



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