^^'^ J'HE ART OF TA.MIXG IIOKSE:-. 



with your hand. He will soon learn to hurry up to 

 escape the whip and be caressed, and you can make 

 him follow you around without taking hold of the 

 halter. If he should stop and turn from vm^ <r-- ^---~. 

 a few sharp cuts about the i^i^^i legs, and he will soon 

 turn his head towm-da you, when you must always caress 

 liim. A few lessons of this kind will make him run after 

 you, when he sees the motion of the whip — in twenty 

 or thirty minutes he will follow you about the stable. 

 After you have given him two or three lessons in the 

 stable, take him out into a small field and train him ; 

 and from thence you can take him into the road and 

 make him follow you anywhere, and run after you. 



To make a horse stand without holding, after you 

 have him well broken to follow you, place him in 

 the centre of the stable— begin at his head to caress 

 him, gradually working backwards. If he move, give 

 him a cut with the whip, and j^ut him back to the 

 same spot from which he started. If he stands, caress 

 him as before, and continue gentling him in this way 

 until you can get round him without making him move. 

 Keep walking around him, increasing your pace, and 

 only touch him occasionally. Enlarge your circle as 

 you walk around, and if he then moves, give him another 

 cut with the Avhip, and put him back to his place. If 

 he stands, go to him frequently and caress him, and 

 then walk around him again. Do not keep him in 

 one position too long at a time, but make him come to 

 you occasionally, and follow you around the stable. 

 Then make him stand in another j^lace, and proceed as 

 before. You should not train your horse more than half 

 an horn- at a time. 



The following is Baucher's method of making a horse 

 ^tand to be mounted, which, he says, may be taught in 



