EDUCATING THE HORSE. 257 



TO EDUCATE HORSES NOT TO BE AFRAID 

 OF OBJECTS WHEN DRIVING. 



It is impossible to overestimate the value of 

 the subjoined instructions respecting nervous 

 and shying horses, therefore on this topic I wish 

 to be particularly clear and explicit. Let the 

 reader understand that horses take fright at ob- 

 jects because they fancy those objects will harm 

 them, and if you can by any means appeal to the 

 horse's brain, and satisfy him that he is not going 

 to be hurt, you have accomplished your object, 

 and in order to do so, you must have control of 

 your horse. I do not mean by this that you are 

 to adopt the too frequent course pursued by 

 many, viz., subduing with the whip, or other 

 harsh means, which will, without almost an ex- 

 ception, increase the fear instead of removing 

 the habit ; again, when a horse shies, the driver 

 commences to jerk on the rein nearest to the 

 object, and at once applies the whip, fully deter- 

 mined to master his horse ; both man and horse 

 get excited., and the horse comes off victorious, 

 because he cannot control him by the means 



