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efforts — handling him, touching him about the nose and 

 head, and patting him, as they direct you should, after 

 administering the article, will have a very great effect, 

 which they mistake for the effect of the ingredients used. 

 By using the oils you can approach a wild horse in 

 pasture, and after caressing him for a length of time, get 

 your halter on his head, but when you attempt to lead 

 him, he is off as wild as ever. 



Paucher, in his work entitled " The Arabian Art of 

 Taming Horses," Page 17, tells us how to accustom a 

 horse to a robe by administering certain articles to his 

 nose, and goes on to say, that these articles must first be 

 applied to the horse's nose before you attempt to break 

 him, in order to operate successfully. Now, reader, can 

 you or any one else, give one single reason why scent can 

 convey any idea to the horse's mind of what we want him 

 to do ? If not, then of course strong scents of any kind 

 are of no account in taming the unbroken horse ; for ev- 

 erything we get him to do of his own accord, without 

 force, must be accomplished by some means of conveying 

 our idea to his mind. I say to my horse "Go along," 

 and he goes ; "whoa" and he stops, because these two 

 words — of which he has learned the meaning by the tap 

 of the whip, and the pull of the rein that first accom- 

 panied them — convey the two ideas to his mind of go and 

 stop. Faucher, nor any one else, can ever teach the 

 horse a single thing by the means of scents alone. How 

 long do you suppose a horse would have to stand and 

 smell of a bottle of oil before he would learn to bend the 

 knee, and make a bow at bidding, go yonder and 

 bring your hat, or come here and lie down ? 



Thus you see the absurdity of trying to break, or tame 



