30 Management and Treatment of the Horse. 



notice as at first, and in a short time you can 

 snap as many caps as you like without it takinoj 

 any notice. You must now place a very small 

 quantity of gunpowder in the pistol, to make 

 a report a little louder than the cap and cause 

 a little smoke, and as your colt gets used to the 

 report you can increase it until you get a full 

 charge. When it will stand the use of the pistol, 

 you can then use the carbine, and the colt will 

 be now made a broken charger. We will next 

 put it into harness. It may not be required for 

 harness, but like man it cannot learn too much. 

 Many horses are put into harness before they are 

 half broken to the saddle, their owners being 

 impatient, and often so parsimonious that they 

 will not allow the breaker time to teach the colt, 

 therefore the colt leaves the breaker's hands raw 

 and half broken, and goes into experienced hands, 

 and the breaker gets the credit of the colt being 

 practically useless. If they come to grief, they 

 conveniently throw all the blame upon the man 

 who would have broken it thoroughly and turned 

 it out a useful, docile animal had he had time 

 allowed him. Although men have written works 

 out of number upon the breaking and training of 

 horses from the time of Marcus Paulus (who tells 

 us he saw in Persia studs of ten thousand white 

 mares all together, and very fleet) to the present 

 time, yet none of the theories advanced can 

 always be put in practice, and although some 

 writers claim to tame or break a horse in a few 

 hours, and others a few daj^s, yet I never saw 

 a horse that was made perfect in the saddle or 



