x.] ' COLT-BREAKING. 



For these lessons, and as far as possible for all lessons, 

 the law should be dulcia sunto ; but after teaching your 

 child its alphabet in ginger-bread, the time must come 

 when he must go to school. 



The simplest act of obedience is longeing. In longeing Longeing. 

 you should walk a circle inside the colt's circle. The long 

 stick should be constantly held up towards his croupe, to 

 keep him on, but ready to be shown towards his head to 

 keep him out. When you stop, and lower the stick, the 

 colt comes in for a piece of carrot. The long cord 

 should never be tight. If the colt's head is pulled in 

 and his croupe driven out of the circle, mental sulks 

 and muscular mischief must ensue. Nothing so surely 

 generates spavins, curbs, and thorough-pins. When 

 skilful, you may make the colt change without stop- 

 ping, or longe a figure of 8. This may be done, 

 even without the long cord, by the centripetal force 

 of carrots and the centrifugal force of the stick. 

 When this is done in the open field it looks like 

 mesmerism or magic. When in this way you have 



