MEANS OF CONTROL. 17 



his wishes, are : affection ; the natural submission 

 yielded by an inferior to a superior intellect ; 

 fear ; and the impression — which is, generally, 

 erroneous — that the order given cannot be resisted. 

 The first three are the usual means for rendering 

 docile a hiorh-courao^ed horse. Althouorh we 

 may, to a certain extent, use the last-mentioned 

 influence with quiet horses, and, especially in 

 mouthing, we should remember that it is our last 

 resource, when all others fail, in reducing a 

 rebellious animal to submission. If, however, the 

 horse which we have taken in hand, happen to 

 reason sufficiently well to enable him tc ''see 

 through " our artifices, our labour will, of course, 

 be in vain. Herein lies the whole question of 

 success, or failure, in making vicious horses 

 docile. Man-eaters, like the historic Cruiser, the 

 taming of whom made Rarey famous, being 

 actuated, almost entirely, by instinctive hostility, 

 yield far more readily to authority, than the 

 sulky animal that, having found out a method 



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