CHAPTER XIII. 



EXPEDITIOUS EDUCATION. 



336. — The education of " Grace Darling" by the Maori 

 chief (319 to 324), exhibits all the essential conditions of 

 expeditious and complete horse education, in a form equally 

 applicable to the most refractory or the most timid auimal. There 

 the horse had no opportunity of trying his physical powers 

 against those of man, but was at the outset placed in a position 

 in which he could neither hurt himself nor anyone else, and 

 compelled to learn by the closest and most active contact with 

 man in a variety of shapes, that man was not an animal seeking to 

 devour him, but one that he might even allow to dance on his 

 back without any. serious result. We do not expect owners of 

 horses to adopt the svramp discipline with the horse. Even if 

 they could command all the requisites it might not be so harm- 

 lessly practised in every climate as in the mild temperature of a 

 New Zealand autumn, but we should like to see every educator 

 of the young horse show the same power to adapt their own 

 resources, whatever they may be, to the conditions required to 

 convey the necessary knowledge and discipline to the young 

 animals in their care. 



337. — The more wild, timid, and uneducated the horse may 

 be, the more time will be saved by adopting some process by 

 which he will be deprived of all power, either of resistance or 

 flight, and be forcibly introduced to all tlie common objects of 

 his prevailing fears. It would take a large volume even to 

 clearly describe the various methods that have been recommended 

 for this purpose, and we have already occupied so much space, 

 by going into minute practical details, that we must avoid 

 anything more that will alarmingly extend these educational 

 chapters. 



