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pass. We must first examine the places through 

 which Tve intend to ride him in order that he 

 should not find himself under circumstances which 

 may give him bad associations or associations 

 adverse to us, and render him frightened and diso- 

 bedient. The various places with their different 

 appearances and circumstances should be known 

 and taken into consideration by the teacher who 

 desires to teach the foal not to be afraid, and should 

 be arranged in progressive order according as they 

 are more or less adapted to excite fear. The tea- 

 cher should then begin by making him pass gra- 

 dually from places which are less calculated to 

 make him take fright to those places which may 

 give him gi*eater fear. 



If the first time he were made to pass over a 

 bridge the bridge were to fall, he would associate 

 the fall with the bridge and would not pass over 

 a bridge a second time. If it happened to him to 

 sink down into soft ground so as to hurt his legs 

 or remain embedded in it, he would become so 

 frightened that he would be unwilling to advance 

 wherever he felt the ground yield though ever so 



