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to control himself, and thus to acquire the mastery of 

 his horse. 



It must be for the benefit of the horse and his rider 

 that the following paragraph be suspended in every 

 stable : " Almost every wrong act the horse commits is 

 from mismanagement, fear, or excitement : one harsh 

 word will so excite a nervous horse as to increase his 

 pulse ten beats in a minute. When we remember that 

 we are dealing with dumb brutes, and reflect how diffi- 

 cult it must be for them to understand our motions, 

 signs, and language, we should never get out of patience 

 with them because they don't understand us, or wonder 

 at their doing things wrong. With all our intellect, if 

 we were placed in the horse's situation, it would be dif- 

 ficult for us to understand the driving of some foreigner, 

 of foreign ways and foreign language. We should al- 

 ways recollect that our ways and language are just as 

 foreign and unknown to the horse as any language in 

 the world is to us, and should try to practise what we 

 could understand were we the horse, endeavouring by 

 more simple means to work on his understanding rather 

 than on the different parts of his body/' 



