HOW OBEDIENCE IS TAUGHT 201 



Like everything else, obedience is not obtained 

 from the horse in a day, but during a shorter or 

 longer period of graduated daily instruction which 

 inav last but a few davs witli a horse of a good 

 nature. In teaching the horse obedience, we begin 

 hv letting him do many thintjs of his own will 

 graduall}' preventing some one or another of them 

 each day until we come to leave none of them. 



His instruction can begin only after he has 

 been taught obedience. 



Way of teaching him confidence. 



The horse is tranquillized and is taught to have 

 confidence in and trust us and is disposed to obe- 

 dience towards us, by speaking to him soothingly, 

 caressing him, and by good treatments of all kinds, 

 and showing him that our person brings him bene- 

 fits. Ohsequium tif/resque domat rabidosque leones 

 (by kindness the tiger and the ferocious lion are 

 overcome), somebody has said. By good treatments 

 the horse is brought to believe that we are friendly 

 to him, that he may trust us. 



