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the right time and place. Our course is to chastise or 

 correct a horse, if necessary, for doing wrong, and en- 

 conrage him for doing right. If he be whijoped for 

 stopping, the "^'hipping should cease when he goes on, 

 and not till then. 



To give a horse the advantage of seeing around him w^e 

 would use a headstall without blinds. But we would 

 make an exception of the carriage horse, for we want 

 him for style, park show and excusable vanity, and to 

 indulge this very harmless ambition we will admit that 

 the carriage and coupe horse, for this reason, should 

 have on blinds and let the the driver look out for danger. 



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CHAPTER XIX. 



FEEDIIN'G. 



As the pleasure of riding or driving depends upon the 

 willing response to a gentle touch of the reins,- if projierly 

 held — in one hand — and the effective touch of the reins 

 depends upon the life and spirit of the horse, Avhich 

 should be light and airy to render him all the lighter in 

 hand, feeding in both time, quantity and quality is a 

 very important consideration, for on this depends the 

 degree and extent of his usefulness, as he can thereby be 

 rendered high-spirited or lubberly, light or heavy in 

 hand, willing or unwilling to move on or to reply to the 

 bit, whip, word or spur. We deem it, therefore, neces- 

 sary in connection with the use of the bit, to say a few 

 words to the reader on this subject before we part. 



The mistaken ideas that some persons have about feed- 

 ing themselves or others, or their horses, is the excuse we 



