>Q2 RIDING FOR LADIES. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



TRAINING. 



The pleasures of instructing a young unbroken colt are 

 so many and great, that my sole wonder is how owners of 

 such animals can so often make up their minds to the de- 

 mands of the professional breaker : an individual who, in 

 many cases, deals harshly, and in many more with a lack 

 of judgment which is as deplorable as it is common. 



To enter minutely into the subject of breaking is not by 

 any means my intention. Volumes might be written about 

 it, and yet the difficulty which many persons experience in 

 learning from books, might not even then be overcome. 

 There are as many different ways of training a horse as 

 there are of training an infant, and I cannot at all agree 

 with the professedly wise ones who say that only one w^ay 

 can be correct. I have found a variety of methods answer 

 almost equally well, and I may (in some instances) say, 

 almost equally badly, also — because everything must depend 

 upon the nature and disposition of the animal that is to 

 be experimented upon. 



Some children are naturally timid, shy, nervous, and re- 

 thing, and cannot be taught at all except by gentle en- 

 couragement — a sort of continual leading onward, without 



