yiCIOLS TO CLEAN. 20T 



tience. The only safe cure for it, and this is not always suc- 

 cessful, is to tie the horse with a very strong halter, which it 

 will be impossible for him to break ; finding that his efforts 

 fere futile, he will, after a time, generally desist from pulling — 

 though some incorrigible brutes will try every new halter as 

 soon as they are fastened, and will break it if possible. 



KUNNING AWAY. 



Some headstrong horses will occasionally endeavor to bolt 

 with the best rider ; others, with their wonted sagacity, en- 

 deavor thus to dislodge only the timid or unskillful one. 

 Some are hard to hold, or bolt only during the excitement of 

 a trial of speed, or the like ; others will run away, prompted 

 by vicious propensity alone. There is no certain cure here. 

 The only method which affords any probability of success is, to 

 ride such a horse with a strong curb and sharp bit ; to have 

 him always firmly in hand ; and if he will run away, and the 

 place will admit of it, to give him (sparing neither curb, whip, 

 nor spur,) a great deal more running than he likes. 



VICIOUS TO CLEAN. 



It would scarcely be credited to what an extent this exists 

 in some horses that are otherwise perfectly quiet ; it is only at 

 great hazard that they can be cleaned at all. The origin of 

 this is probably some maltreatment. There is, however, a 

 great difi*erence in the sensitiveness of the skin in different 

 horses. Some seem as if they could scarcely be made to feel 

 the whip, while others cannot bear a fly to light upon them 

 without an expression of annoyance. In young horses the 

 skin is peculiarly delicate. If they have been curried with a 



