238 WHIP. 



•are decidedly safer than mules where pace is required down steep 

 hills. 



568. — The whip for a moderately free horse, or pair of 

 horses, should be light and long, and be used with caution and 

 judgment. Great mischief is ofcen done by touching a horse 

 with the whip as the first notice that you want him to go on. 

 The result being that the horse is afraid to stand still a moment 

 after he is fastened to a carriage, and will often go backwards if 

 he cannot go forwards. One foolish cut from a whip will often 

 spoil such a horse for the rest of his life. Unless you want to 

 spoil a horse for standing or starting, use some well understood 

 word for starting, and let the whip alone at first. 



5Gi). — TVitli a very free horse, it is desirable to cautiously 

 accustom him to the sound and feel of the whip lightly drawn 

 accross him so as not to hurt him at all. This will prevent him 

 from rushing whenever you take the whip in hand, and make 

 it possible to touch up a sing by his side. A slow, easy going 

 horse on the other hand should never feel the whip upon him 

 ■except to hurt him. Ladies, and tender hearted drivers, often 

 do great mischief to such horses by constantly flicking at them 

 until the horse cares no more for the whip than he does for his 

 •own tail. 



With such horses a pretty heavy whip should be used, and used 

 not often, but so that they will feel it and know what it means. 

 A horse that will not move, and move quickly to the whip, is 

 •neither pleasant nor safe. 



570. — Unless a horse is known to be very quiet and unexcit- 

 ■able, he shoidd iiever be whipped on the hind quarters, as it often 

 tempts a horse to kick. Strike him on the shoulder or fore leg, 

 and if he does not answer to it immediately strike him harder. 

 It will not hurt him so much as jerking his mouth with the 

 reins, and you had better do it yourself than be obliged to sell 

 him to some one that will drive him, and whip him without 

 ■measure or mercy. There is as little real kindness in spoiling a 

 horse as there is in spoiling a child. 



571. — A lady's horse shoiild not require much whip, as a 

 flogging lady is not a pleasant sight, but as a matter of fact, the 



