CHAPTER XIX. 



FIRST LESSONS IN HARNESS AS WEANLINGS. 



When the colts are weaned and tied up, they must, of necessity, have 

 exercise, and the best possible method, in our opinion, is to drive them, 

 instead of turning them loose and taking the chances of their becoming 

 nervous, wild, and getting hurt. 



We have studied this matter a great deal, and tried to get at the fun- 

 damental principles of a rational equine education. For simplicity, 

 cheapness and expediency, the method herein illustrated is the best we 

 have ever seen or devised. See illustration No. 30; hitched for the start. 



Cut No. 30. 

 THE OLD HORSE TEACHING THE WEANLING COLTS. 



The association of the young with the old, reliable and experienced 

 horse, is of vast importance in the beginning. This is genuine "kinder- 

 garten" school work and is simply wonderful in its influence with the 



