ON BEEAKINa AND TEAIXIXG HOUSES. 205 



have recommended will be found to be a good 

 groundwork to go uj^on. 



Most people, in fact I might almost say all 

 people, are in the habit of riding with a. whip, and 

 therefore it is necessary to teach the horse to carry 

 one quietly, but I believe that in many cases a horse 

 would go better and more pleasantly without one. 



If the rider strikes the horse with it, nine times 

 out often he is probably in the wrong to do so, and 

 if he does not strike him himself, the horse is sure 

 to have been ridden by someone at some time who 

 has struck him, and is always more or less on the 

 look out for it when the rider moves his whip about, 

 and if he is at all a nervous frightened horse, he is 

 sure to be more so with a whip than without one. 



