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a few oats worth the trouble of picking up, he may 

 choose to amuse himself by jumping, squealing, kick- 

 ing, and gambolling round the circle. Should this be 

 found to be the case, it would be useless to go on with 

 the lesson : we might as well attempt to teach a boy 

 to solve a problem in Euclid while under the excite- 

 ment of laughing at a pantomime. It would be cruel 

 to use the cane to the boy for exuberance of spirits, 

 though it might have the effect of producing attention : 

 it would be equally so to use the whip to the horse, 

 and with him it would be quite useless. It might 

 make the poor brute tremble and gallop from fear 

 instead of play, but it would have anything but the 

 effect of rendering him quiet, collected, and attentive. 

 We will, therefore, good-naturedly laugh at his frolics ; 

 but as we want him for business we must make him 

 attend to it, and must to a certain degree punish him 

 for not having done so. 



As he has been galloping about for ten minutes to 

 please himself, we will indulge him by half-an-hour 

 more of the same exercise for our advantage, by way 

 of a steadier, and send him to his stable. This kind 

 of amusement once a day (or twice if required), and 

 stopping his oats for three days, will produce two good 

 effects : it will stop his predilection for extra gallop- 

 ing, and makes him think a quartern of oats quite 

 worth having, though he may have to go round the 

 circle and stop a dozen times before he gets the whole 

 of them. 



I am mentioning an extreme case in supposing a 

 horse (except he was in a state of excitement) neglect- 

 ing to avail himself of the chance of getting anything 

 he likes to eat ; for he is naturally a greedy animal, 



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