12 RAREY Oi\ HORSE-TAMING. 



tare he will come up to you to be caressed every 

 opportunity lie gets. 



While training him in the stable, you should lead 

 him about some time before you take him out, 

 opening the door, so that he can see out, leading 

 him up to it and back again, and then past it. See 

 that there is nothing on the outside to make him 

 jump when you take him out, and as you go out 

 with him, try to make him go very slowly, catching 

 hold of the halter close to the jaw with your left 

 hand, while the right is resting on the top of his 

 neck, holding to his mane. Do not allow any one 

 to be present or in sight, during your operations, 

 either in or outside the stable. If you are entirely 

 alone, and manage your colt rightly, you will soon 

 be able to lead and hold him as easily as you could 

 a horse already broken. 



HOW TO PROCEED IF THE COLT IS STUBBORN. 



If the animal you are operating upon seems to be 

 a stubborn or mulish disposition rather than wild ; 

 if he lay back his ears as you approach him, or 

 turns his heel to kick you, he has not that regard or 

 fear of man that he should have, to enable you to 

 handle him quickly and easily ; and it might do 

 well to give him a few sharp cuts with the whip, 

 about the legs, pretty close to the body. It will 

 crack keen as it plies about the legs, and the crack 

 of the whip will affect him as much as the stroke ; 

 besides, one sharp cut about the legs will affect him 

 more than two or three over the back, the skin on 



