116 HOW THE HORSE LEARNS 



reason, and they will not correct liini, but will 

 only anger him and provolce him to revolt. 



I7ie associations which are f/iven him for the 

 purpose of teaching him the actions tve desire to teach 

 him to jyerform should be — of things that his intelli- 

 gence can understand — in the wag he can understand 

 them — and of things suited to give rise to the ideas 

 of the actions we desire to teach him to 2^^^'form, 

 to make him imderstand what we wish him to do. — 

 The same associations should always he used to in- 

 dicate the same actions, and the movements it is de- 

 sired to teach him should he those which his body 

 COM make, and for the making of which it has heen 

 prepared. 



The actions it is desired to teach him should 

 be associated firstly with things that he understands 

 naturally or things which he has already learnt. 

 He himself understands being drawn forward by 

 short intermittent pulls with the lounge which are 

 invitations to go forward from the association of 



