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stand up straiglit, and pay some attention to yon, ap- 

 proach him again and caress him a good deal more 

 •than you have whipped him ; then you will excite 

 two controlling passions of his nature — love and 

 fear — and then he will fear and love you too, and 

 as soon as he learns what to do, he will quickly obey. 

 With these remarks upon the principles of my 

 theory, I have endeavored to teach yoa how to put 

 them in practice, and all of the instructions written 

 you may rely on as having been proven practically 

 by my own experiments ; and knowing from expe- 

 rience just what obstacles I have met with in hand- 

 ling bad horses, I have tried to anticipate them for 

 your good, and assist you in surmounting them, by 

 commeucirig with the first steps taken with the colt, 

 and accompanying you through the whole task of 

 breaking. 



