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Patience is the only means of dressing a horse. 

 *' If you let him master you, you have done with 

 him." If he submits, you must alight that 

 moment and caress him. If he does not yield, 

 you had better stay till next morning than spoil 

 him. 



Pulling and twisting a horse about, is what 

 beats him, and when done with judgment and 

 skill, secures your safety. 



That which can be done by persuasion should 

 never be done by force. It may be some conso- 

 lation to know, that a horse repeatedly defeated, 

 will give up the contest after three days' trial — 

 the first is the most violent, the last a very 

 feeble one. 



