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fore, it is expedient, so as to facilitate the handling, 

 to give it a few sharp cuts with the whip around 

 the legs close up to the body. The cut, applied there, 

 has more effect than two or three cuts over the back, 

 the skin on the inside of the leg being thinner and 

 more sensitive than on the back. If punishment be- 

 comes necessary, for the purpose of inspiring the 

 horse with fear and of breaking his obstinacy, not for 

 the purpose ftf inflicting pain, we must take care 

 not to administer only one cut, as that would only 

 produce anger instead of fear, thereby increasing 

 the vice. As soon as the horse shows fear enough, 

 causing him to stand still and to pay attention to 

 you, approach him again and flatter him more than 

 you before whipped him, thereby awakening in him 

 the two chief factors to his submission : fear and love, 

 and he will willingly do what you demand of him. 



6— THE HANDLING OF UNTRAINED HORSES. 



Before making the reader acquainted with the 

 special rules and manipulations, necessary for the 

 handling of untrained horses, it is important to im- 

 press upon him the following rules, experience 

 proving that success can only be attained by adher- 

 ing to them. 



To remove the terrors, of which the horse is 

 possessed by coming in contact with man, and 

 to create love and confidence to the latter, it 



