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to break him, in order to operate successfully. Kow 

 reader, can you, or any one else, give one single rea- 

 son how scent can convey any idea to the horse's 

 mind of what we want him to do ? If not, then of 

 course, strong scents of any kind are of no account 

 in taming the unbroken horse ; for everything that 

 we get him to do of his own accord, without force, 

 must be accomplished by some means of conveying 

 our idea to his mind. I say to my horse, " Gro long," 

 and he goes; " whoa," and he stops, because these 

 two words — of which he has learned the meaning 

 by the tap of the whip, and the pull of the rein, that 

 first accompanied them — convey the two ideas to 

 his mind of go and stop. Faucher, nor any one else, " 

 can ever learn the horse a single thing by means 

 of the scent alone. IIow long do you suppose a 

 horse would have to stand and smell of a bottle 

 of oil before he would learn to bend the knee, and 

 make a bow at your bidding, go yonder and bring 

 your hat, or come here and lie down ? 



Thus you see the absurdity of trying to break, or 

 tame the horse by the means of recipes for articles to 

 smell of, or medicines to give him, of any kind what- 

 ever. The only science which has ever existed in the 

 world, relative to breaking horses, that has been of 

 any account, is that true method which takes them 

 in their natural state of mind, and improves their 

 intelligence. Consequently, if you wish to educate 

 your horse in a proper manner, adopt a mechanical 

 process. He will then fully comprehend your mean- 



