RUNNING AWAY. 



CHAPTER VI. 



The habit of running away is nearly always caused 

 by carelessness ;but after horses have run away a time 

 or two they are inclined to run at every opportunity 

 •until they are confirmed in the habit, and then they 

 will not be safe to drive at all. For after they have 

 once learned to know their strength they will run 

 whenever excited, although you may have the severest 

 bits that are made on them. Our treatment for a bad 

 runaway horse is similar to that given a shyer, except 

 it requires more lessons and more severe treatment. 

 ;You should take him on a soft piece of ground anu 

 throw him several times ; then hold him down, and have 

 your helpers to make a racket over and around him. 

 iWhen subduing a horse always be careful that the in- 

 stJTiments you use around him will not hurt him; for 

 instance, while he is lying down, and you are rattling 

 tin pans over his head, if he attempts to rise up and 

 strikes his head against the pans, it would have the same 

 effect upon the horse as if it you had struck him pur- 

 posely. He is not smart enough to know that 



