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of man that he shouki have to enable you to handle him 

 quickly and easily. In such cases give him a few sharp 

 cuts with the whip about the legvS, pretty close to the 

 body. It will crack keen as it plies around his legs, and 

 the crack of the whip will affect him as much as the stroke. 

 Beside, one sharp cut about the legs will affect him more 

 than two or three over the back, the skin on the inner 

 part of the legs, or about the flank, being thinner and 

 more tender than on his back. But we do not whip him 

 much — ^just enough to scare him. It is not because we wish 

 to hurt the horse that we whip him, we only do it to scare 

 the bad disposition out of him. But whatever you do 

 do quickly, sharply and with a good deal of force, but 

 always without anger. If you are going to scare him at 

 all, you must do it at once; never go into a pitched bat- 

 tle with your horse, and whip him until he. is mad, and 

 will fight you. You had better not touch him at all ; for 

 you will establish, instead of fear and regard, a feeling of 

 resentment, hatred and ill-will. It will do him no good, 

 but an injury, to strike a blow, unless you can scare him; 

 but if you succeed in scaring him you can whip him with- 

 out making him mad, for fear and anger never exist to- 

 gether in the horse ; and as soon as one is visible you 

 will find that the other has disappeared. As soon as you 

 have frightened him so that he will stand up straight, and 

 pay some attention to you, approach him again and caress 

 him a good deal more than you have whipped him ; then 

 you will excite two controlling passions of his nature — love 

 and fear — and then he will fear and love you too ; and so 

 soon as he learns what to do, he will quickly obey. . With 

 these remarks upon the principles of my theory, I have 

 endeavored to teach you how to put them in practice, and 



