The Horse, as Comrade and Friend 



him to " get up," he will do so, exercising the 

 greatest care not to touch or hurt you. You 

 can train him to stand over you " on guard." 

 while you lie on the ground. When thoroughly 

 trained he will not move a pace from you, 

 and, if you are, or pretend to be, asleep, he 

 will stand there motionless ; or just occasion- 

 ally touching you with his soft nose to assure 

 himseK that you are all right. As an extension 

 of the " on guard " idea, it is quite easy to 

 teach him to stand over your coat, or hat, 

 while you yourself perambulate away from him. 

 It is also most useful fco teach him to stand 

 " anchored," when his reins are thrown over 

 his head and lie traihng on the ground. This 

 is a great Far-West practice, and is used 

 extensively in Mexico, BrazU, Argentina and 

 Australia. Teach him to " follow," which he 

 will do, with his nose just at your right elbow. 



Every lady's hunter ought to be taught to 

 " he down " at the word. The most serious 

 accidents to ladies in the hunting field do not 

 occur, as a rule, from any actual fall, but from 

 the struggles and kicking of an excited animal, 

 scared by finding himself on the ground in 

 unaccustomed circumstances, and in which he 

 has not been practised, or, in fact, subjected 

 to any control. If he has been taught to He 

 down habitually, and he falls at a fence, he 

 will at once cease to struggle, if his rider calls 

 out to him authoritatively to "He down." It is 



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