CHAPTER VII. 



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Habits of the horse, natural and acquired — Getting up and 

 Lying down — Balking — A useful method of treating it 

 — Rolling — How to prevent it — Pawing — Rearing — 

 Striking — Kicking — Biting — Cinch Binding — Shying — 

 How to make a shying horse go past the object of his 

 terror — Stumbling — Falling — Prancing — Plunging — 

 Crow-hopping — Bucking, buck jumpers and how to 

 ride them — Some general remarks about equine idio- 

 syncrasies 56 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Running away — A dangerous habit and difficult to cure — 



Story of an incorrigible runaway and his fate 69 



CHAPTER IX. 



Breaking a colt to the saddle — A short method of taming 

 and training — How the colt is taught to tolerate hand- 

 ling — How he is saddled and cinched the first time — 

 How he is ridden 75 



CHAPTER X. 



Buying a saddle horse — Age shown by the teeth — How to 

 detect poor vision and other defects — Splints, ringbone, 

 spavin — Sore backs, what they indicate — Shoulder 

 lameness and navicular disease — Laminitis or founder 

 — Testing a horse for wind — How to recognize a wind- 

 sucker or crib-biter 86 



CHAPTER XI. 



Teaching children to ride — Cannot begin too young — An 

 old plug better than a pony — Experience the best 

 riding master — Psychology of the horse — He has not 

 the power of deduction — Trick horses — How they are 

 made to appear to have reasoning faculties — They 

 only obey commands 92 



