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him. And why should he not be? These devil 

 wagons are frightful enough in appearance to 

 scare a less timid animal than a horse. There 

 is only one course to pursue. Teach the horse 

 that the automobile or other frightful machine 

 will not hurt him. Do this, not with the whip, 

 not with shouts and execrations, but by leading 

 the horse up to the offending machine until he 

 realizes that it is not some monster of destruc- 

 tion. Patience and sense will prevent almost any 

 horse from acquiring bad and dangerous habits 

 of shying and bolting. Curing a horse of estab- 

 lished habits is quite another and a different 

 thing. It is like reforming the dissolute or re- 

 generating the depraved. The horse, however, 

 is not blameworthy. These bad habits are always 

 the result of foolishness on the part of some 

 man. The sensible course is not to permit a 

 horse to acquire bad habits. This is a thousand 

 times easier than curing them. Patient firmness 

 and gentle insistence will prevent bad habits in 

 all save those that are fools. A fool horse is too 

 worthless to bother about. 



