1%S TEACHING TRICKS. 



is required in teaching this trick, is to tease the horse 

 a little and then pretend to be afraid of him, b}' run- 

 ning from him. After he has learned that he can make 

 you run, he will lay his ears back and act vicious when- 

 ever you act timid; and when you st-and your ground 

 firmly, he will act as gentle as any horse. This makes 

 one of the most sensational tricks that a horse can 

 be educated to perform. 



A FEW GENERAL HINTS ON TRICK TRAINING. 



A young trainer must not fall into the mistaken 

 notion that mere quickness in picking up a trick is 

 the best quality in an animal. There may be such a 

 thing as learning a lesson too rapidly, and what is 

 learned with but slight effort is sometimes forgotten 

 with equal readiness. Another thing, too much should 

 not be expected of one pupU. Public exhibitors are 

 able to show a large array of tricks because of the 

 number of horses they have, each as a rule, knowing 

 comparatively few of these tricks, or, in the case of 

 some of the "sensational^^ tricks, perhaps only one. 

 Still any animal of ordinary capacity ought, with 

 proper tuition, to be able to learn a sufficient variety 

 to satisfy any reasonable trainer. Judicious manage- 

 ment on the part of the exhibitor will often make a 

 variety of tricks out of a single one which the animal 

 has been taught. The first essential for success in 

 training animals is patience. At first in teaching 



?5ome difficult trick manv leapous mnv hp o-ivpn without 

 the shVhtept R-pparerit imnressiori beinsr made npon 

 the mind of the pupil and an uncommon decrree of 



