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crowded with passengers, and other strange or noisy 

 objects — if judiciously treated, not flogged and ill-used, 

 they lose their fears without losing their high courage. 

 Nothing is more astonishing in London than the steadi- 

 ness of the high-bred and higlily-fed horses in the 

 streets and in Hyde Park. 



But until Mr. Earey went to first principles, and 

 taught "the reason why" there were horses that could 

 not be brought to bear the beating of a drum, the rust- 

 ling of an umbrella, or the flapping of a riding-habit 

 against their legs — and all attempts to compel them by 

 force to submit to these objects of their terror failed and 

 made them furious. Mr. Rarey, in his lectures, often 

 told a story of a horse which shied at buffalo-robes — the 

 owner tied him up fast and laid a re oobn him-^the 

 poor animal died instantly with fright. And yet nothing 

 can be more simple. 



To accustom a horse to a drum. — Place it near him on 

 the ground, and, without forcing him, induce him to 

 smell it again and again until he is thoroughly accus- 

 tomed to it. Then lift it up, and slowly place it on the 

 side of his neck, where he can see it, and tap it gently 

 with a stick or your finger. If he starts, pause, and 

 let him carefully examine it. Then re-commence, gra- 

 dually moving it backwards until it rests upon his 

 withers, by degrees playing louder and louder, pausing 

 ahvays when he seems alarmed, to let him look at it and 

 smell, if needful. In a very few minutes you may play 

 with all your force, without his taking any notice. 

 When this practice has been repeated a few times, your 

 horse, however spirited, will rest his nose unmoved on 

 the big drum while the most thundering piece is played. 



To teach a horse to hear an wnhreila, go through the 

 saiile Cdtilious foiihs, let him see it, ancl gmell it) open 



