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punishment. The latter needs very rarely to be 

 resorted to. I have never used it, barring in iso- 

 lated cases, but what afterwards I was ashamed of 

 it, and not infrequently I have made most sincere 

 apology and amends to the sufferer. But the 

 harm done has always been hard to eradicate. 

 An impatient man quickly loses his standing in 

 the confidence and affection of an intelligent 

 horse. In your training, a whip will be much 

 more useful than a crop. The latter is but a 

 badge of fashion, of absolutely no use on the 

 road, and of but little in education. 



Now, Tom, I have suggested to you a number 

 of very crude rules for training your mare. Like 

 Captain Jack Bunsby I ought to add that " the 

 bearings of this observation lays in the applica- 

 tion on it." But by the patient aid of even these 

 simple methods, intelligently used, you will have 

 given Nelly an easy mouth, you will have suppled 

 her forehand and croup, and you will have taught 

 her to canter with either foot in the lead. 



Everything which I have told you can be put 

 to use by a lady as well as a man. But a lady 

 needs preliminary teaching in a school, because it 

 is neither pleasant nor safe for her to be on the 

 road quite untaught. But having acquired a 

 seat and some little control of her horse, she can 

 apply all the rules I have given you, using her 

 whip as a man would use his right leg. The 



