Hints on Colt-Breaking. 23 



we have to let him know who is the 

 master ! " 



It would be fiendish ferocity, were it 

 not simply stupid ignorance. 



I have a friend, and that friend has 

 a coachman who occasionally breaks a 

 colt to harness for his master. This 

 genius puts on the harness, and with- 

 out saying a word, or giving any 

 order, proceeds to give the unoffending 

 beast half a dozen severe cuts with the 

 whip, ''^ just to let him know what it is,'' 

 he says. 



We will now proceed to put in practice 

 the proper method of educating a colt, 

 and it is at this point that professional 

 " breakers," and those gentlemen who have 

 many animals to handle, may give me 



