2 6 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



its effect, usually, appearing to be as transitory as 

 the sensation itself. Thus, if we, while riding or 

 driving a bolter, in order to cure him of his vice, 

 allow him to run himself to a stand-still, we shall, 

 in all probability, find the animal quite as ready, if 

 not more so, to run away, the next time he is 

 '' fresh." In such a case, the fact of the horse 

 having been allowed to do the very thing he wanted 

 to accomplish, in defiance of the wishes of his would- 

 be master, can have no possible effect in forming in 

 him the habit of obedience. Fatigue may, often, 

 appear to be the sole cause of the quietness evinced 

 by an animal under treatment of some of the break- 

 ing methods I describe. This, however, will, on 

 investigation, be found to be incorrect. Even the 

 fatigue caused in, say, rendering an unruly horse 

 quiet to shoe behind, by keeping him on the ground 

 and "gentling" him (see page 157), is out of all pro- 

 portion small compared to the amount of control 

 obtained. One of the best examples I know of 

 the fact, that it is the feeling of powerlessness to 



