8 Hints on Colt-Breaking. 



colt think that nothing / do will either 

 frighten or hurt him. ^' Put yourself in 

 his place." How should you like a giant 

 to rush at you and tie you up with a 

 rope, without a word of exjDlanation ? 

 Herein lies the difficulty, that impossible 

 " word of explanation ; " but recollect, it 

 is for you to get over the difficulty, and 

 not for the colt. He has but four means of 

 slowly discovering the meaning or value 

 of what is around and about him — hear- 

 ing, sight, touch, and smell. Therefore 

 let him apply the last three thoroughly to 

 the head-stall before you try it on. Hold 

 it in your hand while you feed him ; let 

 him look at it, smell it, and rub it with 

 the point of his nose (for this is his 

 method of " touching " a thing), until he 



