32 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



the easy methods I shewed. The reason men 

 usually fail to subdue "difficult" horses, is because 

 they do not know how to take the first step 

 towards making the animal obedient. If, however, 

 they be supplied with this all-important infor- 

 mation, their task should be one of increasing 

 facility after each repetition ; and, if persevered in, 

 would be rapidly completed ; but it must be 

 repeated until the desired habit is established. 



However well a horse may have been broken of 

 a bad habit, he will be far more likely to acquire it 

 again under bad management, than he would have 

 been, had he been originally free from it ; for no 

 course of discipline, although it may keep the 

 animal under thorough control, can efface out of his 

 mind the memory of the practice of a former habit. 

 I need scarcely say that injudicious treatment will 

 always be capable of spoiling any horse, whether 

 invariably quiet, or reformed. Hence, a teacher of 

 breaking will be wise to confine himself to showing 

 '* how it is done," and not to risk his reputation 



