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ually using Whoa, Ho! Ho!, without any meaning 

 whatever. If you want a horse to obey your commands, 

 you will never lie to him or deceive him by giving com- 

 mands when you don't intend to have him obey them. 

 I dwell upon this command because of its importance. 

 Quite frequently your lives may depend on a hearty 

 Whoa ! I can truly say that in my experience of hand- 

 ling colts and vicious horses, that my life would have 

 been at stake hundreds of times, had it not been for 

 having a well understood Whoa upon my horses. If 

 you are careful in teaching this command, and prac- 

 tice firmness in two or three lessons, you will have a 

 horse that will stop at the word Whoa under all cir- 

 cumstances and in any excitement. 



FOURTH LESSON, 



Give this lesson yet in the enclosure, as we have a 

 number of advantages of the colt that we would not 

 have outside. 



First: If the colt wants to act stubborn and tries 

 to got away from us, we can control it much quicker 

 and easier than \ve otherwise could. 



Second : * There are not so many objects to take 

 the colt's attention. A horse can think of but one 

 thing at a time. The school-teacher can not teach his 

 pupils anything while they are looking out the win* 

 dow^, neither can you teach the colt anything w^hilo 



