Hints on Colt-Breaking, 43 



substitute a real rider for the imitation 

 one. 



This must be done with great care, 

 as no chance must be given to the colt 

 to master us, and therefore we must 

 reduce his power to do himself or us 

 harm. 



A horse is (as before said) a very 

 stupid animal, and has absolutely no 

 power whatever of thinking about two 

 things at the same moment.* It is 

 therefore a good plan to give him some- 

 thing that will occupy his entire atten- 

 tion, and also keep him still, while we 

 are first attempting to mount him. 



■^- This is the cause of many falls in the liunting 

 field. The horse is striding along to his fence, 

 when the rider distracts his attention by some word 

 or movement, and the two come to grief. 



