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quicker round his head and about liis eyes. 

 When you mount; begin moderately in the 

 same way; for a horse is very tender and thin 

 in the bones of the head and skull, and in- 

 stinct teaches him to guard it with great 

 caution. Every animal is well acquainted in 

 vi^hat parts he is most vulnerable, and con- 

 sequently protects them with much care. If, 

 after a horse is m^ounted, he is still shy of the 

 brightness of the sword, a stick or cane should 

 be used for a time in making the different cuts, 

 and care must be taken to cut clean and wide 

 of him ; for if a horse be once struck through 

 aukwardness, it will be difficult to make him 

 forget it. 



A man should never, if he can avoid it, be 

 out of temper with his horse ; but such is the 

 depravity and brutality of some of the human 

 species, that they are shockingly cruel to these 

 useful animals, and beat them unmercifully. 

 Nothing is more cowardly than this, as the 

 poor creatures can neither complain, nor are 

 they permitted to resist. Beating a horse for 

 little o'r no cause will break his spirit and spoil 

 him. A horse is particularly afraid of being 

 beaten about the head, because the bones of the 



