BREAKING, GENTLING, AND TRAINING. 



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soothe h'is terrible excitement, wliicli often causes him to 

 tremble exceedingly. He must be convinced that, although 

 completely mastered, he is in no way to be hurt. Confidence 

 must replace terror, and docility his stubborn or vicious way- 

 wardness. Let the operator stroke his hair with the hand; 

 pat his body, neck, and head ; handle his feet, legs, and ears, 

 and, in fact, all parts of his body, accompanying all this 

 with kind and reassuring words. The man may now sit 

 down upon him, turn around from side to side, lie down 

 upon 'him, etc. The more motions and changes that can be 

 gone through with the better. 



THE HOKSE TAMED BY KARET'S METHOD, 



The saddle should be brought and gently laid upon him, 

 the stirrups hanging on each side of his body; likewise all 

 parts of the harness, piece by piece, and the chains, if they 

 are to be used, laid across the prostrate form. After these 

 maneuvers have been carried forward for half an hour, or 

 thereabouts, and all signs of fear =3eem to have departed, the 

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