210 now OBEDIENCE IS TAUGHT 



Various ways of proceeding in teachinfi obedience, 

 according to the various natures of horses. 



In teaching obedience attention must be paid 

 to the various natures of horses, and the teaching 

 must be somewhat modified to suit them. After 

 having acquired the confidence of the choleric 

 horse, we should not be ever ready to punish him 

 because he would be angered by it and offer 

 powerful resistance. The timid horse should not be 

 punished because he will be entirely discouraged. 

 Some punishment may be given even in the be- 

 ginning to the spirited horse and will do good. 

 The timid horse usually has a good disposition, 

 submits to control, and needs to be constantly 

 encouraged, because punishment deprives him of 

 all spirit and bewilders him. The spirited horse 

 is in lesser or greater degree disinclined to submit 

 to control and resists it with a greater or lesser 

 cunning and shows more or less rebellion and revolt, 

 and some punishment may be administered to him. 

 With the obstinate horse which is little inclined to 



