158 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



ground. If the animal goes down without a struggle, 

 and sulks on the ground, he should be forced to 

 "shew fight " by keeping him in the constrained 

 position depicted in Fig. 39, until he has got rid of 

 the most of his "temper" by ineffectual struggling. 

 When a horse begins to groan, and to considerably 

 moderate the violence of his struggles, we may feel 

 confident that "the sulk" has been taken out of 

 him, more or less, and that he is fit to be allowed 

 to get on to his feet again. If an error happens to 

 be made with respect to the amount of the effect 

 produced, it should be on the side of leniency, 

 rather than on that of severity ; for the operation 

 can be always repeated, and more time given on 

 the next occasion, without running any risk of 

 unduly cowing the animal. Whatever punishment 

 we employ, should never be pushed beyond the 

 point necessary to gain our required object, 

 which, in this case, is the attainment of authority 

 over the horse. 



My own practice is, with animals that are 



