48 EFFECT OF INDICATIONS. [CHAP. 



to be crammed under the carriage -wheel, the horse 

 probably rears or runs back into a ditch, or at least 

 becomes more nervous and more riotous at every carriage 

 that he meets. Horses are instantaneously made shy by 

 this treatment, and as instantaneously cured by the 

 converse of it. It is thus that all bad riders make all 

 high-couraged horses shy, but none ever remain so in the 

 hands of a good horseman. 

 The restive There is a common error, both in theory and practice, 



horse. 



with regard to the restive horse. He is very apt to rear 

 sideways against the nearest wall or paling. It is the 

 common error to suppose that he does so with the view 

 of rubbing his rider off. Do not give him credit for 

 intellect sufficient to generate such a scheme. It is that 

 when there, the common error is to pull his head from 

 the wall. This brings the rider's knee in contact with 

 the wall, consequently all farther chastisement ceases ; 

 for were the rider to make his horse plunge, his knee 

 would be crushed against the wall. The horse, finding 

 this, probably thinks that it is the very thing desired, 



