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beat drums, use horse fiddles, and make all the racket 

 I can have stirred up about them. In this way give 

 them to thoroughly understand that these objects 

 and racket will not hurt them. After a few lessons of 

 this kind the horse will take no notice of the usual 

 minor causes of fear, such as a bit of paper flying up 

 about him. an umbrella being carried in front of him, 

 or tlic sudden playing of a band. 



I learned through some of my hard lessons of 

 experience that subduing a horse and making him 

 docile in one place would give but little assurance of 

 his being so at different places. He must have a repeti- 

 tion of subjective treatment at other places, especially 

 the places where he had been in the habit of resisting, 

 in order to break him reliably. We can subdue a horse 

 in a building, then take him outside without giving 

 him a repetition of the subjective treatment there, 

 and he will appear almost as bad as he was before he 

 had been subdued. We must take the advantage of him 

 outside enough to show him we can control him out- 

 side the building as well as we can inside, although 

 it will not require nearly as much work to make him 

 gentle and submissive as it did in the building. W^e 

 can almost subdue a vicious horse in the city amid all 

 the busy noise and din, then take him into the country 

 where everything is quiet, when he will become un- 

 managealile there. But on the other hand, we can 

 subdue a horse in the countiy, then take him to the 

 city, and he will become unmanageble there. At one of 

 the first places where I instructed a class I handled 



