306 HONORARY DISTINCTIONS (MEM.) CHEAP. 



that, if we were to even suppose such persons 

 possessed less kindness of feeling towards animals 

 than other individuals, they would not do that which 

 they know would retard instead of accelerate the 

 object they have in view, it being against their interest 

 to do so. 



That horses in being thus schooled undergo some 

 hardship, annoyance, and occasional correction, is 

 certainly the case ; so does almost every pupil of the 

 human species the school-boy invariably so more 

 or less ; but the horse at school has one decided 

 advantage over the child ; the latter gets punished if 

 he does wrong; but the encouragement for doing 

 right amounts to little more than the absence of 

 correction, unless it be the occasional wear of a bit of 

 tin or some such honorary badge hung round the 

 neck, and once a year receiving some twopenny-half- 

 penny book, " a reward of merit," to show papa and 

 mamma a little kind of by-play to intimate the won- 

 derful progress it is making at Hardfare House or 

 Learnlittle Villa. 



Now as to the horse (putting any kind feelings out 

 of the question), he must be encouraged, for it is by 

 encouragement he is taught to do what is wanted. 

 Fear and correction may prevent his doing many 

 things, and may make him do some ; but it is only 

 by encouragement that he can be taught to do 

 voluntarily such things as are contrary to his usual 

 habits ; and that encouragement must not be con- 

 fined to a mere caress or kind word ; he would soon 

 neglect* his lessons if such were his only reward : he 

 must have something tangible, something given him 

 that he can eat, and that a something that he relishes. 

 Patting a horse if he puts his nose to the ground at 



