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him : in other words, to give him " confidence " and 

 cure him of " nervousness." 



3. To teach him to understand the meaning of the 

 indications by which we desire to convey our orders 

 to him. 



4. To make him obey our orders in the most 

 implicit manner, in the event of his offering deliber- 

 ate resistance to them. 



5. To instruct him how to use his powers to the 

 best advantage. 



6. To make, by repetition, these acts of obedience 

 and " cleverness " thus taught, into confirmed 

 habits ; so that the horse, who is, essentially, an 

 animal of habit, may become a permanently useful 

 servant. 



As an illustration, I may say that we should 

 conduct the education of a colt or filly, according to 

 the principles we should adopt with a recently- caught 

 young savage whom we desired to make a useful 

 servant. While shewing him that we had complete 

 control over him, we should prove to him that he 



