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under the horse's nose. All these means have, so 

 far as the scent is concerned, no effect whatever 

 upon the taming of the horse or the possibility of 

 making it do a certain thing. 



Earey, whose opinion we consider decisive, 

 because consonant with nature, says: 



" As the horse has a habit of touching with its 

 nose everything new to him, one might believe that 

 it smells at it, but, I believe, that the horse 

 uses its nose as we use our hands, for the purpose 

 of touching the object, because the nose is the only 

 organ, that enables it, to touch with an acute feeling, 

 any object. I believe, that the horse uses the 

 four senses : seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling — 

 the sense of feeling being, perhaps, the most import- 

 ant — in all his examinations, and, that the slow* 

 approach of the horse, and the final touching of the 

 object with the nose, is frequently done for feeling's 

 sake — the sense of smelling being so well developed 

 as not to necessitate the touching with the nose, to 

 find out the peculiar smell of an object." 



As we cannot give any reason then, why a horse 

 should comprehend, by the sense of smelling, what 

 we want of him, therefore, the use of strong smells 

 is useless for the training of the untamed horse. 

 Only by words and sounds are we able to influence 

 it, to submit to our demands, of its own free will 



