356 RAREY'S METHOD OP TAMING HORSES. 



As to tlie third : there being, as we know from a natural 

 course of reasoning, some cause for every impulse or move- 

 ment of either mind or action, and this law governing every 

 action or movement of the animal kingdom, there must be 

 some cause before fear can exist ; and if fear exists from the 

 effects of imagination, and not from the infliction of real 

 pain, it can be removed by complying with those laws of 

 nature, by which the horse examines an object, and deter- 

 mines upon its innocence or harm. 



A log or stump by the roadside, for example, may be, in 

 the imagination of the horse, some great beast about to pounce 

 upon him ; but after he is taken up to it, and allowed to stand 

 by it for a little time, and to touch it with his nose, and to 

 go through his process of examination, he will not care any- 

 thing more about it. The same principle and process will 

 have the same effect with any other object, however frightful 

 in appearance, in which there is no harm. 



These principles being taken as the basis, whatever obstacles 

 oppose the proper breaking of horses are readily surmounted 

 by the Rarey method, commencing with the first steps to be 

 taken with the colt, and thence proceeding through the whole 

 task of breaking. 



How TO Call a Colt from Pasture. — Go to the pasture 

 and walk around the whole herd quietly, and at such a dis- 

 tance as not to cause them to scare and run. Then approach 

 them very slowly, and if they stick up their heads and seem to 

 be frightened, stand still until they become quiet, so as not to 

 make them run before you are close enough to drive them in 

 the direction you want them to go. And when you begin 

 to drive, do not flourish your arms or halloo, but gently fol- 



