12 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



dispute — shall always remain on our side. As an 

 illustration, I may mention the advisability of 

 forcibly making a determined and headstrong 

 runaway lie down, until he thoroughly ^' gives in" ; 

 in order to make him yield the more readily to 

 the indications of the rein. 



Association of ideas in breaking. — As association 

 of ideas is the most valuable aid we possess to 

 memory, we should largely utilise the practical 

 working out of this principle in breaking. The 

 intelligent obedience to the voice of their driver, 

 in turning, stopping, going on, and in varying 

 their paces, displayed by many cart-horses, is a 

 common instance ; as is, also, that of the 'bus 

 horse, who starts onward the moment he hears 

 the door of the conveyance slammed-to by the 

 conductor. A friend of mine had a horse that 

 became so increasingly difficult to mount, that at 

 last he found it impossible to get on to him by 

 ordinary means, on account of the animal "break- 



