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word he will start with a jump, which will not move 

 the load, but give him so severe a jerk on the shoul- 

 ders that he will fly back and stop the other horse. 

 The teamster will continue his driving without any 

 cessation, and by the time he has the slow horse 

 started again, he will find that the free horse has 

 made another jump, and again flown back. And 

 now he has them both badly balked, and so confused 

 that neither of them knows what is the matter, or 

 how to start the load. Next will come the slashing 

 and cracking of the whip, and hallooing of the dri- 

 ver, till something is broken, or he is through with 

 his course of treatment. But what a mistake the 

 dnver commits by whipping his horse for this act ! 

 B-eason and common sense should teach him that 

 the horse was willing and anxious to go, but did not 

 know how to start the load. And should he whip 

 him for that 1 If so, he should whip him again for 

 not knowing how to talk. A man that wants to act 

 with reason should not fly into a passion, but should 

 always think before he strikes. It takes a steady 

 pressure against the collar to move a load, and you 

 cannot expect him to act with a steady, determined 

 purpose while you are whipping him. There is 

 hardly one balking horse in five hundred that vrill 

 pull truly from whipping : it is only adding fuel to 

 fire, and will make him more liable to balk another 

 time. You always see horses that have been balked 

 a few times, turn their heads and look back as soon 

 as they are a httle frustrated. This is because they 

 have been whipped, and are afraid of what is behind 



